Category Archives: holidays

Freeing the Brain

Posted on 17 September 2016 by Athene Donald

I’ve been away for the past week somewhere where I really could escape my email. (My previous post about whether one should read email on holiday was written with feeling!) When I go away I particularly like to go somewhere … Continue reading →

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Holiday Snaps (lazy blogging)

Posted on 23 December 2014 by Richard Wintle

In my usual way, with the Christmas break in full sway, I’ll more or less finish of the year with some lazy photo blogging. First up: Toronto’s Eaton Centre with the 1937 camera: And here’s Jill Barber, the mystery holiday … Continue reading →

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Trying to Get Away from It All

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Athene Donald

I’ve been away briefly this week, to an extremely cold and windy Suffolk coast.  Not the kind of break one comes back from tanned – other than with wind-burn – or with skiing fractures, but remembering there is a world … Continue reading →

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