by Ellee Seymour | Jun 3, 2006 | updates
I have been pottering about and having a very relaxing day and caught up with the papers later than usual. So I was stunned to see my letter about Concorde pubished in The Times today. Before printing anything I had scribbled together, the paper always calls to check,...
by Ellee Seymour | Jun 2, 2006 | updates
Philosopher of happiness Alain de Botton I was stunned to hear philosopher Alain de Botton speak so glowingly about John Prescott’s positive influence over planners on Question Time last night. Is this the same man who insists that our buildings play an...
by Ellee Seymour | Jun 1, 2006 | updates
David Lucas had more than his 5 mins of fame by claiming to sell gallows to despotic regimes. But his business partner has revealed it is all a hoax, he is just a petfood salesman with an obsession about capital punishment who has just the one set of gallows he built...
by Ellee Seymour | Jun 1, 2006 | updates
Concorde – our lost national treasure I half expected David Cameron to make an announcement yesterday supporting plans to bring Concorde out of retirement to lead a fly-past for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012 – what a brilliant and...
by Ellee Seymour | May 31, 2006 | updates
Deep in Naarfuk, life moves at a much slower pace. It is great to see this has been reflected in the village of Deopham where its welcoming sign ask motorists rather quaintly to “drive you steady”. I imagine this use of local dialect instantly puts a smile...
by Ellee Seymour | May 31, 2006 | updates
The highly esteemed Spectator and Sunday Telegraph writer, country walker and fellow Cambridgeshire inhabitant, Ross Clark, is asking us all to put our thinking caps on. He is writing a book on bizarre rules and regulations. There must be zillions of them. Please...
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