About Town
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72. First Saturday of Summer
We spent the day – a mild and leisurely one – up in Birmingham, a return to the city for a second niece’s graduation. The main event was on Friday which left us to our own devices for today. To Cannon Hill Park we went, to take in its sights and sounds and get L… Continue reading
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64. Not the old July Weather
The warmest June in England on record seems to have been followed by a July which is not particularly keen to provide much respite. For the chronically online, the discourse has been around the (European) AC conundrum – with pejoratives of “Europoor” being thrown in for good measure. It is in moments like this that… Continue reading
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47. Baader-Meinhof
I think I spotted my first properly purple Nissan Qashqai, and now it seems they are everywhere. The Qashqai is of course one of the more popular UK cars, I just haven’t seen many in that colour. The Baader-Meinhof effect, I suppose? Continue reading
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Spring-ish
Out and about.. — It is perhaps something between wildly optimistic and foolhardy to call it for spring in the first week of March, but given the many days of sustained highs with temperatures north of 14C and nary a cloud in sight, one can be forgiven for snatching at these first nascent signs of… Continue reading
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