Month: July 2020

Coronavirus Diary 55 – great oaks from little acorns grow

Do you remember a few months ago in my post Coronavirus Diary 28 – Dancing in the rain I purchased a baby Spider Plant? It has been growing over the months and it must be doing well as last week I noticed that a runner and sprouted so I must have been doing something right. Obviously the… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 55 – great oaks from little acorns grow

Coronavirus Diary 54 – Going on the London Underground!

Last week I decided and sort of had to go into London for the first time since the 6th of February to meet with a colleague. It probably wasn’t the best day to go given that it had been hot for a week and I knew the underground would be a whole magnitude hotter.  Also… Continue reading Coronavirus Diary 54 – Going on the London Underground!

Nova Anglia – The Anglo Saxon refugees who built the original New England on the Black Sea.

Everyone knows about the New England colony that was established on the eastern coast of North America but much less known about and something I’ve long been interested in is that accounts of a creation of a New England on the shores of the Black Sea around 500 years earlier than the one in North… Continue reading Nova Anglia – The Anglo Saxon refugees who built the original New England on the Black Sea.