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Save the Tumbledown
At the tail end of this year’s summer time, a mighty oak tree came down beside the Tumbledown Dick pub in Farnborough. It didn’t fall, it was cut down.
That Oak tree had stood for hundreds of years and had a healthy, green leafy canopy – It was a pleasant part of the Farnborough Road and, as with all Oak trees, probably supported a large number of species of birds and insects.
So, to see the tree come down, one that had stood over the neighbouring pub for more generations than I’ve ever traced back of my own family, was sad to say the least. A little bit of England has been felled, biodiversity in that small pocket of land has been altered dramatically and the abandoned pub we all love is exposed even further to the elements.
So why was that grand old oak tree cut down?
Summer Solstice 2011
It’s been a few years since I last travelled down to Stonehenge. It was a Saturday night, I’d seen my mate’s band “Messiah of None” play at The Star Inn, Guildford, and the trip down the M3/A303 was a last minute post-pub decision. Unfortunately the rest of the gang were in no fit state to … Read more
Hijacking History
Working in the Internet industry fosters a sense of exactness, or at least I would hope it does. Whether it’s coding HTML or PHP, designing a template for a content management system or publishing articles on business or legal issues, everything should be correct. Why? Well, a mistake in your HTML code could end up … Read more
No More Heroes
Nostalgia is an incredible thing. For one, life was definitely less complicated “back then” and the lack of complication allowed times of sheer unadulterated joy. Boards of Canada, although a modern sound, take me back to the ’70s but in the last few weeks I’ve been to see true legends from that decade; Motorhead, Saxon … Read more
The Armistice
Whilst I sit here late on a Tuesday afternoon with the sun going down through one window and the near-full moon rising in the other, I realise that it would be good to take a break from philosophising over socio-economic and political issues and spare time to respect those whose day this is. We had … Read more