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There are two types of tours of the Sellafield plant – a benign happy-go-lucky sightseeing tour [for I-don’t-know-who], and another for journalists, press officers, visiting government ministers, and other dignitaries. YT [obviously] belonged to the latter category.We...

Spooky news out of England: the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant has sprung a leak. And that leak must be pretty substantial, seeing as how they’ve closed the whole plant down – and we’re not talking a mere building or two, but an area the size of a small town,...

I took this photo three nights ago, down by the seashore a block away from my place, at 10 pm. [Click on it for an enlarged view.] What you see in the distance is the Snæfellsnes glacier, which supposedly is one of the seven Chakras of the world. People claim it has...

What an eminently civilized Saturday!We slept late, lazed around in bed until 11.15, then got up and prepared some French toast and coffee for breakfast. At which time EPI got it into his head [after looking at the invitation card he’d received, that is] that there...

Cripes! I have so much time on my hands that I don’t know what to do with myself. After having been snowed under with assignments for the last few weeks, everything has sort of slowed to a trickle and for the last couple of days there’s been nothing. Which is...

Excellent advice, everybody - thank you! I think I've come up with a couple of good ideas for my 'headache' conundrum, as well...FIRST: HALOSCAN BASHINGThere’s nothing like a good rant to get the blood rushing to the head. And today, the recipient of my rant shall...

You know, sometimes somebody comes along and articulates a thought that has been floating around in your head without your even knowing it. This is precisely what I happened this evening when I read Paperback Writer’s post, in which she likens the blogging experience...

Here’s a tip: if you’re thinking of using your little travel iron, which you occasionally like to use instead of the more cumbersome and occasionally leaky ‘regular’ iron, and someone tells you that they’ve just used it and it may still be ‘warm’, DO NOT assume that...

Ladies and gents, it's the moment you’ve all been waiting for…YES, it’s another episode of…MFUDDLED ENGLISH LANGUAGE SIGNS![Applause] [Whoo-hoo!]In a City restaurant:OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, AND WEEKENDS TOO.In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox...

When I go out for a spin on my bicyclette, I head west along the seashore and soon encounter this:This is a traditional old hut used for drying fish, which was one of the common ways of preserving food here in the old days. This hut is still used for that purpose, as...