Excommunication by Quilt
In 1858, a friendship quilt was made by a group of young Quaker girls in Frederick County, Virginia. There is a bull’s eye block (square) sewn over one of the original blocks, a lovely tulip design which is clearly visible in an x-ray photo. This young seamstress was elided from the community, as we ...
Full Weekend Of Football
Football is back, and it came back with a bang. In the first full weekend of football, the Big Ten laid an egg Saturday when it had a chance to make a statement that the conference was back. In the NFL, a lot of playoff favorites also came up on the losing end of games. Let's start with Saturday. Th ...
Sept 8: Really? Ya gotta be kidding.....
Kept meaning to post after the last depressing one, but kept getting busy. So: Cancer scare with Mom, which I didn't share with more than a handful of people. Good news is that the mass in her cecum (beginning of large intestine, over on the right next to appendix) turned out to be a piece of poop. ...
The crisis in prisons has revealed not only a deterioration of a service but a failure of governance.
Of all of the public services facing austerity cuts since 2010, prisons have perhaps been the least able to cope. The often disastrous decline in standards in many establishments, public and private, is all too clear from seemingly weekly Inspection reports. Last week we learned that at Wormwood Scr ...
bubbles, football, fall
A few months ago, someone recommended I take a picture every day. That's a good idea, I thought to myself, but I never really did it. I'm not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination, but I like to take pictures and I have beautiful boys to be the subjects of said pictures. Then a few friend ...
Issue 29 – The One With The Dog On The Cover
Debs has been after getting a picture of a dog on the front cover for so long it seemed fair to let her have her way this time so she still thinks she’s in charge. Lots in the issue , the Crossing Lines Project, Gas Safety, Kings and Queens Of England to name but a few.
New home surge is ‘catastrophic’: Face of rural England could change forever as 27,000 houses get go-ahead to be built on greenfield sites despite ferocious local opposition
Tens of thousands of new homes have been built on green fields despite ferocious local opposition because of controversial planning reforms. The contentious measures, which threaten to change the face of rural England forever, have proved ‘catastrophic ...
Why Gary Cahill and England Do Not Warrant Criticism
On the back of the 2006 World Cup, departing England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson had a message for the English media. "Don't kill [Wayne Rooney] because you will need him," he pleaded, per BBC Sport. England had just crashed out of the World Cup at the ...
Switzerland vs England 2014 Score Prompts UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifier
ST LOUIS (LALATE) – Switzerland vs England 2014 (live score results below) heads to the field this morning for their soccer battle. The soccer game is a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifier. It will be hosted in Basel. Today’s Switzerland vs England 2014 game ...
England should want to win everything, not just the Ashes
In 11th Century England, Saint Anselm of Canterbury developed an argument for the existence of God. In essence, his argument states that God has all good qualities, existence is a good quality therefore God exists. This somewhat circular Ontological ...
Cheer up England, the football future's bright (ish)
To borrow a phrase from Roy Hodgson, the idea that this is a do-or-die game for England is “absolute f*****g b*****s”. The England manager’s crude language came after a comment from a journalist. My outburst is more simple: this is not the beginning ...
