Don’t you love the King James Bible? And don’t you also love slagging off those awful modern translations that trendy churches use nowadays? Well, you’re not alone. The 400th anniversary of the completion of the translation that King James I…
Read: Lost in translations
To cut a long story short, some abbreviations just get on my nerves. Others, like Tim, or Dot, are perfectly OK. Maybe the ones that annoy me are the ones used by aficionados who want to foist their familiarity on…
Read: The long and short of it
5 September 2011 As I made myself comfortable in the hospital waiting room, my eye was caught by a notice directly in front of me: “Please do not move.” For a moment I thought I was on the road again,…
Never mind all this turning-on and turning-off of speed cameras. Most of the real advances in road safety seem to happen in Scotland. A couple of months ago, for instance, road crashes at five Aberdeenshire blackspots were reduced by 100%…
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Several sightings have been made in the eastern Cairngorms of the lesser spotted conservationist, a species which is not indigenous to the area and is regarded by many as a threat to local fauna. It is very difficult to track…
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When my grandson was four, I was able to take him across the road to Norwich rail station, and we could wander down the platforms and watch the trains. If we felt like it, we could hop on a Bittern…
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Protests against cuts are nothing new. One of the problems with improving services to the public is that what is given cannot easily be taken away: the new, improved situation quickly becomes the norm. More than that – it becomes…
Read: Good news for the poor
I was accosted by an attractive woman as I made my way out of the Castle Museum in Norwich the other day. I suppose it was a small disappointment that she was involved in market research, but you can’t have…
Read: Making it all up