My third day of the Xmas Package started gloriously with a clear blue sky and a warm sun penetrating through the windows of our deluxe room and, from our balcony, a magnificent view of Torbay and, beyond, Paignton. It proved to be the start of a very enjoyable day. The usual delicious...
Norway and Sweden are big on recycling. In Luleå, each grocery store had a plastic bottle drop-off machine called apantathat you could return packaging to before you entered the shop. Rather than give out cash, each machine would print a receipt that you could later scan at the checkout...
XXVII, NO. 2 Page 29 OBITER DICTA Dog-Lime Days Jerome Betts Torquay, Devon Anne Born's book The Torbay Towns (Phillimore 1989) quotes from a Devon geologist's mock-epitaph of 1869. One stanza begins: "Here rests his head on balls of album graecum,". This substance, the dry chalk-...