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The Vikings are still in York 2022. I saw two today using a Zebra crossing replete with horned hats, badly shaped woollen tunics, wooden swords and shields. They gather together on the fields besides the Millennium bridge in their costumes and wooden weapons for a spot of medieval movie...

It wasn’t all that long ago when many people went to church on Sundays, gathering together in fine old buildings listening to a man in a costume telling you how to live your life whilst singing barely remembered hymns from childhood. Families would wear their Sunday best clothes taking...

Let’s face it – most people have very little to say. In multiple encounters every day we talk to work colleagues, neighbours, friends and leave these transactions none the wiser. In fact the overall feeling after these encounters is a crushing boredom. Who is interested in the achievements of...

Everybody likes a good moan now and then. The usual targets are bosses, members of one’s own family, celebrities, the Government, etc. Individuals are “appalled”, “disgusted”, ‘shocked”, “astonished” or “staggered” by the behaviour of individuals or institutions. Such brief outbursts, particularly with a compliant and agreeable group of friends...

During this lockdown period, many people who are unable to work have decided to take the opportunity to undertake more exercise. Many have taken up running. Here in York the new runners do not simply don an old tee shirt and baggy shorts and venture outside. Both sexes have...

Much to my own surprise, before the Coronovirus crisis I decided to participate in a HITT class at the gym Apparently with considerable effort but in a relatively short space of time you get an “after burn “ of calories. It is designed for the body conscious but time...

I ws talking to a man from Madrid yesterday and during the course of the conversation he said with reference to nothing in particular the he was mulling it over. I was taken by surprise because it was not an idiom which I expected to hear from a native...

Whilst walking the dogs this morning an adult dressed as Spiderman ran past me. He said ” Morning. How are you ? Take care. Later after picking up- the dogs shit I saw Spiderman again. This time he had removed the mask in order to use his mobile ‘phone....