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A new personal website
No comments on A new personal websiteI am a fan of personal websites. I kind of think that everyone should have one – or at least everyone who is engaged with the online world should have one. It doesn’t have to be complicated. A single page with a brief introduction to who you are and some relevant links can be enough. Having a simple personal home on the Internet is also very much in the spirit of the open web. A…
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New bathroom
The big news with me so far for 2025 is the installation of a new bathroom. It has been a surprisingly speedy and straightforward process (if expensive) and I am very pleased with how it has turned out. It makes a lot of the rest of the house look a bit shabby in comparison. Anyway, this is mostly just an excuse to post some pictures:
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Walking the River Lea
This summer I achieved something that I have wanted to do for a long time, which was to walk the entire course of the River Lea from the source to where it flows into the Thames. I consider the Lea to be “my” river. It rises a short distance from where I live in Leagrave and flows through the centre of Luton. So in a way it has always been there in the background. However,…
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The Saxon Church of St Laurence
I went on a family canal holiday this summer. One of our stops was at Bradford on Avon where on a very wet and rainy day as I was searching for somewhere to buy groceries I came across this little historical and architectural gem. The Saxon Church of St Laurence. There was something about this ancient building I found quite moving. A sense of calm and a connection with England’s past. How many generations of…
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Election photo
One consequence of standing in the General Election is that people have been taking photos of me — with resulting clashes with my vanity — but I do like this one of me with my friend, and fellow candidate for Luton North, Rabi Martins.
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Thinking and Feeling: recording a personality change
Where I work through the implications of an unexpected Myers-Briggs test result.
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On anxiety: a personal update for August 2015
I wrote at the end of last year about the personal crisis I had been experiencing and the steps I was taking to recover from it. Whilst that recovery has continued I have not entirely escaped from the depression from which I have been suffering, so I thought I would post an update about where I am with it at the moment and the progress I’ve made. I want to do this because I’d like to let those…
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A month of cold
I’d planned to be much more active here. To start the new year with a concerted effort to be much more communicative generally and active on social media particularly. However, this wasn’t to be as I experienced a frustrating month of cold. I came down with a cold on New Year’s Day and it stayed with me, varying in seriousness, throughout the rest of January. I still have a bit of a sniffle now. While…
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Lyme Regis Focus
I’ve arrived in Lyme Regis for a family holiday. What’s the first thing I find as we enter our cottage? A ‘Lyme Regis, Charmouth & District Focus’. Well done West Dorset Liberal Democrats! 🙂
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Meet my new lodger
This is my new lodger Molly. He’s been staying with me for over six weeks now and despite all meals being provided and excellent room service the only rent I’ve received has been one small rodent.
