Volumes from Verulamium – 2.0

Batch two from our trip to Lake Garda.  We took a trip into Verona one day – here’s the photos to prove it!   Have to confess I had been a little nervous about another Italian city having found Naples so horrible.  But Verona was clean, friendly and very easy to get around, and full [...]

Second batch of Italian pictures up – same link as before. But I did want to share with you three cute cat pics:

First batch of photos from our holiday (September seems a long time ago!) are now posted – click on the picture above or here.

I don’t normally post anything political here.  No, I don’t have sinister extremist views. I’m just not sure anyone’d be particularly interested in what I thought.   However, I am making an exception here for a political campaign that is party neutral: Mysociety.org’s Free Our Bills campaign.  For those of you who’ve not come across Mysociety.org [...]

St Albans is the only place where I have ever seen individual streets with their own war memorials.  Each year, poignantly, they are hung with poppy wreaths on Remembrance Sunday. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will [...]

Sunday was our first wedding anniversary.   As we’re off to Bruges with Sarah’s brother and father in a fortnight’s time, have only recently returned from Italy and this weekend was the big St Albans fireworks display, we weren’t going away.   So, we had friends round for drinks, chilli jacket potatoes and a trip to the [...]