A Late Entry

Adoring Angels is making a strong run along the rails in the Christmas Card Chase with Benozzo Gozzoli on board. He has form: 1421 – 1497.

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Snowscapes

Robert, Bertie and I received a Christmas card from a friend (and his dog, Akiko) that so far is runner-up in the hotly contested Best Christmas Card Competition – renamed Covid at Christmas Cock-Up this year.

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Lithuania

There are uncomfortable parallels between Europe in 1938 and the world today.

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Eviva España

Virginia Cowles writes affectionately about the Spaniards she met in this warts and all extract from Looking for Trouble.

JBS Haldane

If you read JBS Haldane’s entry in Wikipedia and you should, you will not read about the Spanish civil war.

Only Connect

I love a long train journey. My longest, so far, was Barons Court to Shanghai in 2013; starting on the Piccadilly Line in London and ending on the maglev train (268 mph) to Shanghai airport.

The Maeander

Sometimes, the more often the better, posts here meander. You know what the word means but you may not know its origin.

The Kadir Cup

F Yeats-Brown describes a day pig-sticking in Bengal Lancer. If only his horse was faster he might win the Kadir Cup he muses.

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