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As a recently re-started rail user, I've now worked out the difference between December and January. December: Seasonal fare January: Seasonal fare increases

Just reunited two Birman kittens that were separated after 6 weeks and kept apart for 12. Fur hasn't flown yet. Perhaps they remember.

Reflecting: typical of Cambridge to let Wen Jiabao give its most prestigious lecture. Great scholars under morally bankrupt administration.

My Evesham Voyager with Windows 98 still works fine after 11 yrs. Every laptop bought since has had breakdown within 3. Technical progress?

Secrets of low-cost nutrition: Visited upmarket food store - no MyWaitrose; Visited downmarket food store - yes my weight rose

Embarrassed at owning a car, after 20+yrs on two wheels (or feet). Luckily it's so old, it was built by employees and not agency workers.

Unicef press release: "Campaigners squat opposite Parliament to demand action on sanitation." Good cause and admirably evocative headline.

Searching for anywhere in the world not in recession. East Timor's president promises double-digit growth this year. They deserved a break.

Congratulations to Boris Johnson for taking the first step this week towards eventual UK membership of the EU. His deal shows it is the right way to go.

Biking in central London after few years away: congestion eased, but air just as bad, bendy buses lethal, and everyone wearing helmet. Sad.

And potholes no joke when on 14 inch folding-bike wheels. Or are they for taking shelter in if the Obama-Medvedev nuke deal falls through?

Having just passed a theatre where Frankie Howerd once performed, reduced to thinking 'Twitter ye not'. But disobeying.

Hearing of Liberia, rebuilding against all odds under Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Why is she so often insulted through comparison with Thatcher?

A case for price controls, as the only way to keep winter bills affordable without Treasury subsidy to Big Energy, colliding with environmental commitments: theconversation.com/how-to-tackle-… It gets ever harder to view the long-term as just a succession of short-terms #CostOfLivingCrisis

Reading Henry James. Te 100yr+ classics will never go away because they're all that can remind us of a world before commerce dominated.

Also reason Royal Opera's live big-screen telecasts are so popular. Requires suspending disbelief regarding BP'S sponsorship.

Does anything distinguish online 'social networking' from commercial networking? Thatcher/Reagan, thought we'd defeated you, no such luck.

What does the UK actually produce? Only free information sent through imported networks. The US can get away with this, I'm not sure we can.

Evidence of torture sanctioned by a government I once campaigned for, led into war on a knowingly false pretext. So ashamed.

Perennially desperate to give up on PCs, but early word says iPad no better excuse than iMac or iPhone. So iWait a bit longer to be ex-XP.