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What else would we be going to look at on a suburban street called Helleristningen, other than what this Norwegian word means: the rock carving. Situated in an area of housing in Åskollen, south of …

The pike fishing is slow - did I mention that before? So thought I'd chuck out a cube of meat as well - see if I can get something to pull the line while I'm …

Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a major performance in director Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, a piercing drama set in a British working-class milieu as seen through the lens of a Black family with Jamaican roots. Jean-Baptiste, who …

Addison finished washing his hands, flapped his fingers in the sink, tore a length of towel-paper from the dispenser on the wall and dried his hands, looking at his face in the mirror, and behind …

At the urging of expat@large, one of the faithful from the days when Blogging Was A Thing, I have been reading Michel Faber’s Listen: On Music, Sound and Us and immediately feel a wee bit …

Author Kristina W. Kelly is here today to entice your senses. Specifically your olfactory sense! Follow along in the Big Idea for her newest novel, Tavern Tale, as she introduces you to an aspect of …

As we reach the end of another year, now is the time to reflect on all the joys and disasters in the garden and allotment. This year I celebrated ten years of blogging. If you …

Presumed innocentZig Dulay's Green Bones from a script by Ricky Lee and Angeli Guidaya-Atienza (story by Joseph Conrad Rubio, Kristian Julao, Angeli Guidaya-Atienza, and Ricky Lee) turns on the premise that a convict judged and …

Non-fiction Viviane Robinson Reduce Change to Increase Improvement: My brilliant colleague at the National Institute of Teaching, Paula, recommended this. It has been hugely influential in developing leadership approaches that are clear and simple, and …

By far the largest part of Schumachers book is in regard to the third world and this section really hasn’t aged well at all. The world is different place 50 years on, but it exposes …

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Welcome to my new podcast. I’m working on the podcast for the next few months, so probably best to head over there for interviews with people with housing and benefit issues. There will be a …

Sometimes (a lot of the time) I’ll look back at my blog posts and realize that there’s some really big thing I’ve been doing or working on that would have made for an interesting blog …

Last Monday I decided to have a wander around bits of South London – taking in a walk round Elephant & Castle to see its rapid transformation in to a mini Manhattan. After that, I …