Mom’s the Word

Season of mists, etc. – thank you Keats. What with Southern Rail’s autumn timetable that leaves a forty-five minute gap between trains from Victoria to Gatwick and those mists I had a longish day yesterday.

Thursday on Lac d’Annecy

It is easy to be lazy in this sleepy town. A walk along the lake to a neighbouring town for lunch seems an ambitious project.

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Tuesday in Annecy

In October last year I quoted extracts from a journal I wrote when I was in Afghanistan in 2008, Two Nights in Kunduz. The BBC report that Kunduz has fallen to the Taliban.

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Gender Fluidity

I am not gender fluid. I didn’t even play women in school plays. In Lyon I’m surrounded by gender fluidity.

Gleizes

Both Eurostar and TGV in France have more first class seats than passengers prepared to pay for them. This creates an opportunity to travel more comfortably at only a little extra cost.

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X Marks the Spot

A retirement project is to be a Short Term Observer (STO) for overseas elections. At the beginning of this year I completed an online course and waited for an election to come along.

Sailing on the Solent

Let me introduce you to Ischnura, a female dragonfly, and the name of this trimaran. She was designed and built in Denmark about ten years ago and now she scuds across coastal waters in the UK.

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Plane, Train or Slow Lane?

I haven’t ridden my Brompton bike for years. I say this is a safety play as I don’t want to be squashed under a lorry. This happened to me on Hyde Park Corner in the 1970s and I don’t want a repeat. You may say I’m lazy.

Double Death on the Avon

I noticed this plaque while I was walking in Wiltshire last week.  It’s quite new and a local woman walking her dog told me replaces an older memorial.