02 November 2017 A Matter Of Time An extra hour in bed. By Chin Chin We all know, without perhaps being quite sure why, that time goes at different speeds in different frames of reference. That is one of the more startling conclusions of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Still, there is nothing in that… Continue reading Issue 127: 2017 11 02: A Matter Of Time (Chin Chin)
Tag: Easter
Issue 101: 2017 04 20: Cracking Eggs With Donald, JR Thomas
20 April 2017 Cracking Eggs With Donald President Trump’s Easter message. by J.R.Thomas President Trump, clad in jeans and sweat shirt, appeared on the White House lawns to distribute Easter favours, join in the egg painting, dance with the Easter Bunny, and fling handfuls of mini eggs into the grass, crying “Take that, you suckers”…… Continue reading Issue 101: 2017 04 20: Cracking Eggs With Donald, JR Thomas
Issue 101: 2017 04 20: England Expects J R Thomas
20 April 2017 England Expects A visit to Cape Trafalgar. by J.R.Thomas This time last year we were, as it happens, in the same place. Except, although it was the same time last year, it wasn’t. If you read my colleague Neil Tidmarsh’s piece on the timing of Easter in the Shaw Sheet last week… Continue reading Issue 101: 2017 04 20: England Expects J R Thomas
Issue 99: 2017 04 06: “Absolutely ridiculous…frankly” (Lynda Goetz)
06 April 2017 “Absolutely ridiculous… frankly.” What exactly is the relationship between Jesus and chocolate Easter eggs? By Lynda Goetz The Twittersphere is apparently alive with it; the Church, the Press, descendants of John Cadbury and even the politicians have been wading in on the subject of the National Trust, Cadbury’s Easter Eggs and the… Continue reading Issue 99: 2017 04 06: “Absolutely ridiculous…frankly” (Lynda Goetz)
!ssue 47:2016 03 31: No Rain on the Parade (J.R.Thomas)
31 March 2016 No Rain On The Parade Easter celebrations in Seville by J.R.Thomas “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there” famously wrote L P Hartley in The Go-Between. We may have come to think that in modern times and after two thirds of a century of European Union that the… Continue reading !ssue 47:2016 03 31: No Rain on the Parade (J.R.Thomas)
