It’s been properly winter cold here in Oxford England- after a great summer and mild autumn. Which means the temperature dropped just below zero… But today our Oxford weather’s reverted to being the usual mild – specifically: cloudy at plus 7 degrees centigrade. Whereas in Fairbanks Alaska, it’s clear and sunny at minus 28 degrees centigrade. I’ve …
Green Party Lights in Alaska In both Fairbanks and Oxford, environmental issues are important. For Oxfordonians the interest is indirect, academic (and caring), whereas Fairbanks is surrounded by vulnerable tundra. The East Oxford Council ward where I live, had until a few years ago, an impressive Green party representation. At one point every councillor in our ward …
Oxford England – as some Americans would say, is one of the world’s bicycle cities. With the exception of Headington Hill, it’s flat, and being a medieval city, a push bike is the best way to get into the city and around it. Plus it’s so medieval that the City Council do everything they can …
Trading Places: Cycling in Oxford and Fairbanks Alaska Read More »
I’ve been posting SITREPs for a bar restaurant The Watering Hole on the beach at Perranporth, as terrible storms and high tides assail the West Country; while at the same time my son Will has fun on Dartmoor and Woodbury Common on the All Arms Commando Course. When I was in Commando Forces, back in …