Railway musings south of Warsaw

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Saturday, 12 December 2015

Today's answer to the Old Boys' Network

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I was surprised and honoured to be invited to be one of the guest speakers at a get-together of Warwick University graduates (and indeed st...
Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Tottenham Court Road revisited

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Back again after a while - this used to be the nearest Tube station to where I worked for 16 years (at Centre Point from 1981 to 1997). At f...
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Tuesday, 8 December 2015

A moving documentary about Warsaw

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Dan Cruickshank's BBC4 documentary about Warsaw is well worth watching. I watched it tonight with my father - a Warsaw Uprising veteran ...
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Monday, 7 December 2015

"Extreme weather events are now a feature of the British climate"

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Watching British TV as the second 'once-in-a-century' flood hits Cumbria in six years, I realise why the British are more acutely aw...
Sunday, 6 December 2015

A second try at automatic writing

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I'm in the mood - feeling the inspiration. A glass of wine, I close my eyes and wait to connect... Waiting for the channel to open... He...

A walk through my childhood Hanwell

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Across the tracks, across the Uxbridge Road... geography makes such a difference. Where are you from? It matters you know... Each morning,...
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Friday, 4 December 2015

I have trod the upward and the downward slope

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Horsenden Hill, One Tree Hill and the Grand Union Canal What an unusually mild day in London today; sunshine and a top temperature of 13C...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Patriotism and Nationalism: what's the difference?

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I love Poland - I'm a Polish patriot. I live in Poland out of choice.  Not by default. My family moved to Warsaw in 1997 as the result o...