Archive for February, 2010

Winter Olympics begin early in Witney

Posted in cotswolds, councils, cycles, environment, establishment, location, responsibility, roads, safety, society, transport, weather on February 13th, 2010 No Comments »

After avoiding most of the worst of the snow and the frost I managed to come off my bike on ice this week. Astonishingly, it wasn’t the fault of the local councils through not gritting. I mean: they haven’t gritted, didn’t grit, won’t grit; they’re too busy trumpeting how low council tax is to actually [...]

Bananas? Everyone is round here

Posted in body, diary, experience, infirmity, location, neighbours, person, sleep on February 9th, 2010 1 Comment »

When we first moved from Oxford to Witney, some five years ago, we found the chattiness of neighbours almost stifling; having got used to that, we experienced it all over again when we moved to Eynsham village. It wasn’t that our neighbours weren’t lovely: but they were far more talkative than city dwellers, especially so [...]