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A very fine substitute for day time television is either looking out to the garden from a room indoors or sitting quietly in the garden itself.
No matter where you look, you’ll find some creature or other showing us mere human’s what survival is really about, plus of course, the characteristics they [...]

Canterbury removes Waste Bins and lessen’s Waste!

Canterbury City Council in their wisdom have decided to remove most of their Street Waste Bins from the City Centre.
It appears that by doing this they are surprised that litter in the Streets has not increased and in fact has given people more incentive to take their litter home [...]

If you haven’t been to London for a while, there’s something going on! It seems that more and more people are using their bikes and in many cases, at both ends of their journies, but not the same bike!

Yesterday my son Leo and myself went up to the House of Commons and afterwards walked a [...]

This is not having a go necessarily at people who live in houses, it is an observation of how modern technology and our material needs have gone faster than our Infrastructure can take.
Walking down a once leafy Street full of nice houses with little front flower gardens and a tree was pleasant, it was a [...]

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about how we get around; the cheapest, the most cost efficient and the safest and I’m finding it difficult to find a winner!

The Car
The car for many is the obvious choice, it keeps you warm and you are your own master on route and how you use it [...]

The last few days has brought about heavy storms along with high winds and in many parts of the country this has finally brought down the remaining leaves on the trees.

We’re lucky here in the South East though, a fairly mild late Autumn has given us one of the best arrays [...]

Vanishing Phone and Post Boxes - Vanishing Heritage
There are absolutely loads of things I love about the modern age, the computer for instance has changed my life by opening me up to a new life of information and learning etc., but there are many things which seem to be paying the cost for faster ways, [...]

Maybe getting the new bicycle made me into doing this, cycling gives you a little more opportunity to stop, get off and view some of the wonderful countryside around you.
So, the other day I was driving home from my job with Kent County Cricket Club in Canterbury and thought I’d make a few stops on [...]

What Man or what organization run by man has ever managed to close down every UK Airport and many in other north west European Countries? - None !

With the eruption of the Icelandic Volcano we once again see the wrath and the ‘nature’ of nature is greater than any Human on this planet.
Every year, the [...]

Just a few weeks back I was writing in the Fortnightly Diary about how much I enjoy this time of year, all be it ‘Autumn as we know it’.
There’s something about the coolness of the air, the colours of trees which no Artist could even start to capture and the joy of collecting wood in [...]