My post from January (“Every pub in my postcode”), which reported that I had drunk at least one pint of beer in every pub in London W4 at some point in my life, was inaccurate. It turns out there are two more bars that I hadn’t considered, both in the new development opposite Gunnersbury station.… Continue reading Every pub in my postcode (postscript)
A yad is a pointer used in a synagogue to trace the text in the Torah. A rabbi will not run his finger across the parchment, he uses a yad instead. We learnt this over the weekend as part of my 12-year-old son’s RE homework, which involved learning at least three of the things that… Continue reading Word of the week: yad
Do you remember loom bands? They were quite the thing in the summer of 2014. Children all over the UK and Ireland were busy making rings and bracelets out of tiny rubber bands. My daughter was seven at the time and, like most of her classmates, spent much of her leisure time working on them.… Continue reading Loom bands
Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the season of Lent. I have just copied that first sentence from the post I wrote last year, “Things to do in Lent”, and am tempted to copy the whole piece and just change the references to specific dates and seasons. In 2016 Ash Wednesday fell on 10… Continue reading Ash Wednesday
The Compartments 