Hear hear. Or should that be here, here? Either way well done.

I don't agree with some of the things you've said, but I celebrate your effort to get involved.

Trevor Carbin, South West Wiltshire Parliamentary Candidate for the Liberal Democrats has put out a survey leaflet. I responded thus:

Hello, I've just read your 'Trevor Carbin's 'Just one minute' Survey'. I find multiple choice surveys a bit limited so I thought I'd respond in more detail to your Green …

On Sunday we went to cheer Emma on in the Bath Half Marathon.

The streets of Bath were closed to traffic, and filled with runners.

and here are the other Emma supporters. They look quite presentable in a photo don't they?

For Christmas, my brother gave me a book edited by Max Brockman called 'What's Next?' It's a collection of essays by scientists, talking about their work and its implications.

There were a lot of interesting ideas in there. One thing that sticks in my mind is the research that shows …

What we should do next year is add some competition.

Either charter a couple of trains that just shuttle back and forwards between say Westbury and Bristol. Or book a load of coaches.

This time next year we'll be millionares!

The train company wasn't greedy enough. They could have made quite a bit of money if they'd have added another couple of carriages.

The problem is that there's no competition. If there had been, then a more commercially aware company would have taken their customers.

It's difficult to see how …

The quite bizarre situation that privatisation has given us means that trains are no longer put on at our convenience but when it's easy for the operators to do so. Customer satisfaction is way down the list of priorities.

My Dad with his then girlfriend in 1957.

I've emailed the Office of Rail Regulation

Hordes of people were unable to board the 10:09 from Bradford On Avon to Bath Spa. The train was crowded because of the entirely predictable Bath Half Marathon. A four carriage train should have been put on, rather than the two that …

Well, I'd read Sophie's World and Sophie's Choice. I picked up Jostein Gaarder's Through A Glass, Darkly and was enraged by the smug Christianity of it all. I don't like the fantasy genre, but give me the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Unbeliever over nauseating angels. The whole book is drearily …