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Well, a week in Italy makes it seem a long time ago where I pick up the threads. I was actually quite busy on the Thursday and Friday...

On Friday I spent some time in the morning delivering invitations for my planned coffee morning in October and it was nice to walk the...

Well, now, I've actually had an unusually busy week with fun things, some family things and more than usual meetings etc. On Friday I...

Back to scaffolding. I was sitting here doing my emails when suddenly there was a head outside my window, slightly disconcerting on the...

Getting back to the discussion about Paradise in The City I am pleased I now have a date for an initial meeting with officers and the...

Well, this week has mainly been in Jersey so I imagine this will be a short one. I will not bore you with my holiday snaps (mostly) - I...

I'm taking a long weekend in Jersey so doing this a day early. I seem to be having a lot of holidays this summer. It's not all that...

On Friday morning I was over to 'my' lodge - Lambert Lodge. I have still drawn a blank about how prescient council officers in the 1960s...

In the main, these days in a rather small and peaceful ward, with no remaining Cabinet responsibility, are a lot less active than I was...

My work life is increasingly quiet, because this is a small ward with less problems than many, and of course we have summer coming on and...

Feels like a previous life, but I'll pick up the trail from 4th July. A day off on 4th July. I can assure you I was not focused on the...

I nearly gave up here, but I'm a determined type. The ruddy computer deleted all the purple prose I had written and then went odd. It...

Eventually. I had to go around what I suspect was the Warsaw M25 in the rush hour. Then about 5 more hours, nearly all motorway. Mostly 2...

I was a bit late starting and this was a relatively long drive. Trundled South through Lithuania but got a bit spooked by the signposts...

I had breakfast at my 5* hotel. What makes it 5* I don't know, though the room and the appearance of the place was good. But that aside...

My hotel did not offer any breakfast, or even a cup of coffee. There was a sachet of a special Nescafe which I decide to give a try. I...

When I woke this morning I wondered what to do today. My eccentric approach to being a tourist left me thinking I had 'done' Helsinki,...

Of course we all are. I listened to something about Ulaanbaatar which is apparently the coldest capital city in the world. Last winter it...

Well I know it's not called that and it is just a ferry ride across the Baltic Sea/Gulf of Bothnia. But I started life in Liverpool area...

This has day been I suppose the least exciting. No ferries, no Jersey cows, no borders. I decided to have brecker at the hotel. The meal...