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A Blissful Break in Wonderful Wiltshire!

Last week, Rosemarie and I spent a relaxing 3 nights in a beautiful part of the world that we'd never visited before. Yes, Wiltshire! Winding limestone valleys, streams, rivers, lakes, picturesque villages with thatched cottages and amazing traditional pubs - also wide, clear uplands with views for miles, rich farmland, fat cattle and sheep, woodlands, miles of footpaths, towns with amazing cathedrals, mediaeval marketplaces and majestic country houses. We went down in the electric car, charged up en route while we had a coffee and then, after our arrival, an excellent meal. Fortified by a good traditional breakfast with eggs from the hotel's chickens, we spent the following day walking around the nearby countryside. The day after that we drove to a park-and-ride, where we left the car charging up while we went into town using our bus passes. Finally we made our leisurely way back home with a rapid charge near Stonehenge and taking in a National Trust property on the way. The small country hotel we stay

13 Feb 2020
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The Law of Jante is alive and well and finds no shortage of victims in England.

Alas, the Law of Jante is applied not only in Scandinavia. Its baneful influence is strong in England - diminishing, and destroying when it can, those who excel, are popular (even people we are happy to be entertained by), are prominent in some way or who are experts (remember them?). It is launched against those who try too hard, are "too clever by half" or "should know better" or "no better than s/he ought to be" or are "swots" (especially "girly" ones!) and against those who are lucky enough to have some special skill or talent. You know, people who "don't know their place". It sets out to punish achievement, to undermine any pretence of moral authority and any attempt to suggest improvement or (especially) that we should act differently. Think about Greta Thunberg. It is always trying to catch people out, to try to find a flaw, an inconsistency, a "hypocrisy". It is good to test those in the public eye, but not unfairly and not to destruction. Its assiduous, ruthless and implacable application is however

22 Feb 2020
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Welsh Group St Davids Day Dinner

Chiltern Welsh Group Celebrates St David's Day.

Clwb Cymraeg Ardal Chiltern is a self-organised Welsh language reading and conversational class that has been meeting in Leighton Buzzard on term-time Tuesday evenings for 30 years - first at the Riverside Centre and lately in the Leighton Buzzard Theatre and Library Building. The group is a mix of Welsh-speaking English members and first language Welsh speakers. The meetings are a mix of conversation, grammar and discussions about Welsh media articles, both printed and radio. The group also reads modern Welsh literature and is currently reading "Y Bwythyn" by Caryl Lewis. If you are reasonably proficient in Welsh conversation you would be welcome to join us. You could contact Nick Hollinghurst on nickholl1945@btinternet.com For details of the book that was metioned visit the publisher's website www.ylolfa.com The picture shows the club's St David's Day Dinner on March 6th at Tilsworth Golf Club near Dunstable.

14 Mar 2020
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