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The weather is glorious again, with bright sunshine and a very slight breeze—just right for a trip into Margate, and a visit to the Turner Centre. The Centre is a very impressive modern gallery right beside Margate Harbour. Apparently Turner had a mistress who lived in Margate, so there is actually a connection between TurnerContinue reading “Travel Blog; July 27 to July 31 2012”

    I forgot to mention in my last blog that the Swilcan burn runs through the Easter Kincaple farm before it reaches The Old Course. It took about 10 minutes to walk from the farm house to the burn, and here are a couple of pictures, one on the farm, the other on theContinue reading “Travel Blog; July 22 to July 27 2012”

Travel Blog; July 18 to July 22 2012 One thing I forgot to mention in my previous blog, was the strange sight of a small tractor driving back and forth along the inter-tidal zone of beach at St Bees. At first we thought that maybe it was scraping up debris (syringe needles, plastic bags andContinue reading “Travel Blog; July 18 to July 22 2012”

You may find this blog, like the flight from Melbourne to Manchester, rather long and tedious, but hopefully you will find that like the flight, the end result is worth the effort! 5.00pm, July 13, Helen and Phil came for a quick light snack (Auvergne omelette) before we headed to Melbourne Airport. We had alreadyContinue reading “Travel Blog; July 13 to July 18, 2012”

In the early days of the 1665 plague in London, the Lord Mayor got it into his head that cats and dogs were the cause, and ordered that as many as possible be destroyed. The unintended consequence was an explosion in the population of rats, which by way of their fleas were the real culprit,Continue reading “The Law of Unintended Consequences”

Hello. My name is Browning. Slingsby Browning. And I have started this blog as an outlet for some of the random thoughts which occasionally pass through my ageing brain. In this blog , there will be posted from time to time articles which are trivial, serious, long or short, but above all I hope, never boring. ThereContinue reading “Introduction to the Blog of Slingsby Browning”