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Lili Boulanger 12 Sep 2012 | 04:22 pm

My discovery of the week, thanks to Matthew’s excellent programming for the autumn concert, is [W:Lili Boulanger], sister of the legendary composition teacher [W:Nadia Boulanger]. Like [W:Jehan Alain]...

Flying Scotsman 14 Aug 2012 | 02:06 am

I’ve been playing trains. It’s awhile since I photographed the (slow) progress on the main station, and it’s also a while since I decided to go for BR maroon era, which gives me a nice range of black ...

Poverty and motoring 11 Aug 2012 | 04:44 pm

I have been thinking about this for a while. A member of my family is living on a low income with a large family. Some years back when my sister died I bought this family member a car to replace the o...

Coeliac disease 10 Aug 2012 | 09:24 pm

It seems likely I have coeliac disease. This is an auto-immune reaction to gluten, and apparently if you have it, you have always had it. I can’t think why it’s taken this long to diagnose. I am waiti...

Martin Fleischmann 7 Aug 2012 | 02:44 pm

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away (actually 1989 in Southampton, but let’s not be picky) a great friend of mine was in a state of high excitement. My friend Séamus had been doing some work for ...

Britain no good at sport? Discuss 22 Jul 2012 | 09:26 pm

It is said that we are no longer a great sporting nation. We get knocked out of the World Cup every time a German stands in goal for a penalty shootout, after all. Today showed that yes we are still a...

Allez Wiggo! 21 Jul 2012 | 10:38 pm

This might just be the greatest year in British sporting history. Notwithstanding a football game in 1966, today has seen Bradley Wiggins almost certainly secure the Tour de France, the first British ...

Après Magritte 8 Jul 2012 | 04:20 pm

I very much enjoyed the picture accompanying the [W:New Statesman] article Forget a shower of bad headlines, this is political climate change. It shows David Cameron sheltering under an umbrella from ...