English – and possibly other languages – get quite weird when it comes to place names. Each seems to become an idiom on its own.
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It has been the most gloriously sunny and mild day of the year. But the Downs round here […]
This blog is almost a month old now, and it would help me to cater better for your […]
Can anyone explain to me how some paths in England and Wales ended up as designated footpaths, and […]
Today Sir Robert Francis published his report from the Freedom to Speak Up Review, on whistle-blowing (or the […]
The days when I would ‘train’ by deliberately walking with a heavy rucsac are long past. Now I […]
The Internet is replete with information and opinions, many of them plain wrong. This is most true of […]
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If you research art history, you know how hard it can be to track down an image of […]
The CEO of a corporation supplying software to the legal market considers the concept of momentum to be […]
The Eclectic Light Company 