Altar Image

Yesterday was like early summer rather than a week or so into February. I took my boys out into the surrounding countryside (much mud-slingi...

Ginger Bread, Ginger Beer

I love how a detail of a perhaps long-forgotten past can still hang on in there, regardless of everything else that's going on around it...

Railway Echo No 6

Here's a treat for railway buffs. Aynho is in Northants, its station in Oxfordshire, built in 1850 for the Oxford & Rugby Railway. I...

New test promises to quickly tell if you've got seasonal flu

Have you ever wondered whether your cough, fever or achy head was really caused by the flu ? With the help of a new test, doctors will be ab...

Letter from Leicestershire

A whole day out in High Leicestershire, rummaging about in wet muddy lanes. I've known about these red gates with the top rail painted w...

On the Tiles

Not much to say about this really, except that it's yet another reminder of an alternative London that still clings on in odd corners of...

New Get Ready materials aimed at kids

Even kids need to be ready for pandemic flu. That's the message of new materials from APHA's Get Ready campaign that feature informa...

Kid ‘n play

It may not be the most polite conclusion to come to, but most of us think it at one time or another: kids make me sick - literally. They for...

Licensed to Thrill

Yesterday I astonished the known world by both taxing my car and getting my tax return in on time. As I sat outside the post office tearing ...