Weekend 669.0
(1) Remembering the Best: Bobby Short (New York Social Diary) (2) The historic city with a ‘small-town feel’ named the best place to live in the UK (The Independent) (3) Continue Reading →
Category Archives: England
Weekend 665.0 (Shark-Bodied, Triple-Tailed Ship)
“And I come to the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are the treasures of innumerable images brought into it from things of all sorts perceived by the Continue Reading →
Weekend 658.0 (The Limestone Route)
“The barren wilderness has become a great city and the desolate places have been to blossom as the rose.” — Cambridge General Advertiser, July 30, 1845 “Railway termini are our Continue Reading →
2025 UK Christmas Trip
The trip started at the TWA Hotel and included London, Norwich, and Southampton. We had a couple of day trips to the Isle of Wight and Netley. The Saints escaped Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving 2025
It’s Thanksgiving and also the First Sunday of Advent. (1) 2026 FIFA World Cup pots: December 5 draw structure announced for groups in next summer’s tournament (CBS SPORTS) (1a) Southampton Continue Reading →
Weekend 648.0 (…things are upside down and in the air.)
(1) Inside Brompton: a pioneering provider of folding bicycles for fifty years (Wallpaper) (2) History has a rhythm and this is eerily relevant. A quote from The Brothers York: An Continue Reading →
English Premiere League Finale (2024/25)
The English Premiere League (EPL) season ends today. The season was absolute rubbish for Saints Fans, but like spring baseball, hope springs eternal. The club has appointed a new manager Continue Reading →
Relegation Day (Southampton FC)
For the second time in three campaigns Southampton FC is relegated. The once venerable club and pride of the south has clueless/greedy owners (SR), poor managers, and lazy/turgid talentless players. Continue Reading →
Has it held, the warm June weather?
Why are British FILMS so good? I watched Love, Rosie on TUBI and it’s a beautiful movie. The other movie I watched while travelling was What If and it was Continue Reading →
The s(pace) between football matches: post sabbatical ruminations
This rootedness of reality in the concrete presence of the past is one of the things which makes history so important. We need to know where we’ve been in order Continue Reading →