07 September 2017 Lifelong Learning The fun of acquiring new skills. By Lynda Goetz Monday was the day of la rentrée scolaire in France, i.e. the date pupils started the new school year. It also happened to be the day I returned from my own new learning experience in France. I had been in the Lot,… Continue reading Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Lifelong Learning (Lynda Goetz)
Category: Features
Issue 119:2017 09 07:Happy Birthday Philip (J.R.Thomas)
07 September 2017 Happy Birthday, Philip by J.R. Thomas Welcome back from your summer vacation. For most of us each year the choice lies between guaranteed sun, airport queues, and lobster like tanning – or rain, motorway jams, and that strange pallidness that tells the neighbours that this was the year of the staycation. But… Continue reading Issue 119:2017 09 07:Happy Birthday Philip (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Turning Left (Chin Chin)
07 September 2017 Turning Left Choosing the way forward. By Chin Chin Just as an army consists mainly of infantry, so most of the people you meet in life are slightly pedestrian. That isn’t to say that they don’t have their uses. Hewers of wood and drawers of water are as essential to the 21st… Continue reading Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Turning Left (Chin Chin)
Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Craft Villages… (Lynda Goetz)
17 August 2017 Craft Villages; Plant Villages; Flower, Vegetable and Produce Shows Country life in the 21st century. By Lynda Goetz The manager of our village pub is a Londoner. His wife is Polish. The idea of competitive entries for ‘A bucket of potatoes (one plant)’, ‘5 runner beans’, ‘3 matching white onions’, ‘a single… Continue reading Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Craft Villages… (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 118:2017 08 17:A Beefy Game (J.R.Thomas)
17 August 2017 A Beefy Game The battle over shooting by J.R. Thomas It is that time of year again, when the Shaw Sheet puts on its best tweeds, tightens its plus fours, pulls on the old deer stalker, and goes for a walk on the wild side to hear the sound of gunfire. Not… Continue reading Issue 118:2017 08 17:A Beefy Game (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Lazy Bastards (Chin Chin)
17 August 2017 Lazy Bastards A working man’s revenge. By Chin Chin Bastards, Corbynist-Tory-fascist-Marxist-racist-foreign bastards, have you heard what they’ve done? Who? Well, them of course. Those ghastly subhuman pieces of animal excrement who call themselves the editors of the Shaw Sheet. Haven’t you seen the announcement? There it is on page 1 – a… Continue reading Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Lazy Bastards (Chin Chin)
Issue 117: 2017 08 10: The Holiday Competition (Chin Chin)
10 August 2017 The Holiday Competition A change in conversation. By Chin Chin An English summer sees many changes. The trees which budded in April begin to lose their spring blossom and come into glorious leaf in the course of June. Meanwhile, down on the chalk streams, the trout, gorged on the plentiful insect life… Continue reading Issue 117: 2017 08 10: The Holiday Competition (Chin Chin)
Issue 117:2017 08 10:A better Plas(J.R.Thomas)
10 August 2017 A better Plas The legacy of Clough Williams-Ellis by J.R. Thomas Clough Williams-Ellis’s career bestrode most the twentieth century. “Who he?” you may be muttering over the muesli; if and when you do recall who he, you may well smite your forehead and shout “Of course!” Clough, born in 1883, was by… Continue reading Issue 117:2017 08 10:A better Plas(J.R.Thomas)
Issue116:2017 08 03: When In A Hole – Keep Digging(JR Thomas)
03 August 2017 When In A Hole – Keep Digging HS2 will revive British tunnelling by J.R. Thomas Last week we looked at HS2 and what it may do, or may not do, for some of Britain’s regional cities. Preparation work has been under way for a couple of years with construction teams being assembled,… Continue reading Issue116:2017 08 03: When In A Hole – Keep Digging(JR Thomas)
Issue 116: 2017 08 03: A Very British Event (Lynda Goetz)
03 August 2017 A Very British Event Open-air theatre and problematic weather. By Lynda Goetz Memories are often founded not on what actually happened, nor, of course, on the boring daily trivia, but centre rather around particular events. Our memories of years past are coloured by these occasions and the weather at these fixed points… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: A Very British Event (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Nunc Est Bibendum (Chin Chin)
03 August 2017 Nunc Est Bibendum But try to time it right. By Chin Chin Sometimes new research touches the very fundamentals of our lives and the conclusion reached by the University of Exeter, that we remember more if we have a drink or two after the event, is certainly in that category. Take buying… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Nunc Est Bibendum (Chin Chin)
Issue 115:2017 07 27:Wanderlust(Amelia Power)
27 July 2017 Wanderlust Just how sustaining is travel? by Amelia Power Young people today are infected with the travel bug. Itchy feet, wanderlust, whatever you want to call it, it’s a phenomenon rife in society. It seems as if no one can sit still for more than a few months at a time, myself… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:Wanderlust(Amelia Power)
Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Made In France? (Chin Chin)
27 July 2017 Made in France? The Cornish flood By Chin Chin What caused it then? Rain poured down on the streets of Coverack in Cornwall on a scale not seen since Noah. Was this a direct punishment by the Almighty? Were there, among the rubble swept into the sea, the remnants of altars to… Continue reading Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Made In France? (Chin Chin)
