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Diary Snapshot: Spooks
The title is a popular colloquialism for spies...
Diary Snapshot: Hedgehog Highways
There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas
Diary Snapshot: Cauliflower
Typically, only the head is eaten
Diary Snapshot: His floozy’s earring
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure
Diary Snapshot: Tax
A failure to pay, along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law
Diary Snapshot: Wotsits
Britain's record-breaking brand of cheesy flavour corn puffs...
Artwork Archive: Paris
My obsession with maps is never-ending
Drabble: Toddler Zombie Walk ends in tears
He thought it would be a fun introduction to the complexities of death
Diary Snapshot: Home working
Your workplace needs you
Diary Snapshot: Buttoned-up Man
In large sizes for coats and smaller sizes for breeches...
Diary: 1-7 September
Then someone said “lazy” home-workers should be forced back to their offices
Diary Snapshot: Storecupboard Shame
To the early Christians, chestnuts symbolised chastity...
Drabble: U2 not really all that bad
Then someone said U2 "romanticize the shiny side of an old coin"
Diary Snapshot: Adopt a homeless hamster
Species commonly kept as pets include the three dwarf hamsters
Diary Snapshot: Galveston, Oh Galveston
An island city on the Gulf Coast of Texas, known for Moody Gardens and a famous son
Drabble: Rattle & Hum
When a Chinook loiters over Cripplegate, we all wonder...
Diary Snapshot: the Lost City of London
It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages
Diary: August 2020
The month started with signs of post-Covid life emerging, and ended with sobering thoughts on what now lies ahead...
Diary Snapshot: Prestatyn, where bands go to find their name
Rules are meant to be broken
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