4th Mar 2015
(click on the image above for a better view - a list of the books below) The other day I noticed a new reading project doing the rounds on Twitter. It goes under the hashtag #TBR20 and I’ve decided that it’s just the thing for me. Ever since I started my first paper round (the short-lived Uttoxeter News, on my 13th...
more9th Feb 2015
Devon, 8/9 February 1855 Of all the strange weather stories I have read about over the last few years, I remember that of the Devil’s Footprints above all. It happened exactly 160 years ago, on the night of 8 February 1855. It is a mystery of Sherlockian proportions. It remains unsolved to this day. The start of 1855 was...
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![Historical Miscellany #36 - A Roast Dinner Cooked on the Ice over the River Exe [1855]](http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/themes/petermoore/thumb.php?src=http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Skating-on-the-Serpentine-940x626.jpg&h=304&w=710&zc=1&q=90 "Historical Miscellany #36 - A Roast Dinner Cooked on the Ice over the River Exe [1855]")
(From The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, 23 February 1855) A singular occurrence in gastronomic science was tried on Tuesday week, on the ice in the centre of the River Exe, at St Thomas. The severity of the frost having coated the surface of the river with a thick crust of ice, capable of...
more5th Feb 2015
I spent every other childhood holiday on the east Yorkshire coast visiting family. I've long wanted to go back and take a decent photograph of Filey Bay - the syrupy morning light, the vast skies reflecting in puddles on the sand (which is especially suited for cricket) - and I was happy to get this on Tuesday morning. It's been...
more22nd Oct 2014
(Westminster Pier, 21 October 2014) Yesterday the dying fragments of Hurricane Gonzalo blew over London. I woke in the night. It was about four in the morning and the bedroom window was rattling in its frame. We’re at the beginning of storm season. October and November are typically the worst months for violent weather and...
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