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In my article entitled Dorset ancestral anecdotes [ display ] , I described my delightful Friday, 3 August 2007, in the sunny village of Bl...

This morning, Sophia started to bark furiously, announcing that I had visitors: a woman about fifty and two attractive blond girls around tw...

My Norman ancestors, arriving in England in 1066 with William the Conqueror, settled at the Saxon site of Sceaftinga tûn , the place of Scea...

On Thursday afternoon, 2 August 2007, I took the train from London Waterloo to Poole [Dorset]. I'm surely not the first traveler to poin...

Last year in February, a Sydney-based think tank named the Lowy Institute succeeded in scaring shit out of everybody by announcing the theo...

Karl Rove , referred to by critics of the US administration as "Bush's Brain", has decided to stop prancing for the president....

In my article of 23 July 2007 entitled Wandering in a spiritual wonderland [ display ] , I indicated that Natacha, Alain and I had visited ...

If I decided to take a photo of this perfectly ordinary ham and cheese omelette I cooked for lunch, it's simply because it's a beaut...

On Tuesday, 31 July 2007, I got off the Eurostar at London's Waterloo station and took the Underground to Finsbury Park in North London...

Upon returning to Gamone after a five-day excursion to England, I was thrilled to discover that Manya had installed elegant new curtains in ...

I would like to nominate Kevin Andrews , minister of Immigration, for the Bungler of the Year award. Speaking of the departure for India of...

My three destinations in the UK are purely genealogical, connected to my paternal ancestors: — London [two days], to take photos of my gran...

My article of 23 July 2007 entitled Wandering in a spiritual wonderland [ display ] includes a photo of an iron nugget that Alain discover...

On the eve of the penultimate stage of this year's berated Tour de France, there's exactly one minute and thirty seconds between Cad...

French legal concepts are rather different to the so-called English common law that forms the basis of Australia's system. I've spok...

This excellent book by the Oxford physicist David Deutsch came out a decade ago, but I've only just got around to reading it. Seeking t...

Tomorrow morning [Thursday, 26 July], Michael Rasmussen won't be lined up for the start of the next stage of the Tour de France, which ...

My lovely lady dog Sophia , described as a cross-bred Labrador with a golden robe, was born nine years ago. A few minutes ago, I told her [i...

Last Saturday, while visiting the Grande Chartreuse with Natacha and her husband, I was momentarily alarmed when I saw Alain disappearing i...