CAMRA crisis!
Pic of the Week – 14 October 2005 by Kay McMahon © 2005 All photographs are digitally watermarked – please don’t infringe copyright! Kay adds: “We…
Parking in the UK – forget it!
“Parking is one of those ‘Don’t get me started’ topics. Everyone has a story and everyone, but everyone, has an opinion whether it’s the cost, the evil nature of traffic wardens, the lack of free spaces, the insidious spread of parking meters into residential and suburban streets, or the fact that machines will never give change…” Miranda Irving on the frustrations of parking your car in Britain.
British Expat Newsletter:
28 September 2005
This week: Shopping – how technology and business pressures are homogenising the experience of the weekly shop in the UK.
The Twenty Forty-Five
“Bored now, Prince Shuggie tossed the paperback onto the cheap plastic table. Like he cared that cheap plastic tables were banned. He’d inherited it from his grandfather. It was his legacy.” In a short story, Mike Clark presents his nightmare vision of a re-run of the “Forty-Five” Rebellion – three centuries on.
On the road to Autumn
A country track in autumn near Marnhull, Dorset.
British Expat Newsletter:
31 August 2005
This week: Edukashun – are the “best-ever exam results” every year all they seem?