Miscellaneous blog posts
The blog posts below give my thoughts and ideas on subjects and events that interest me in one way or other. Whilst some are quite well researched and complete, others are very provisional and preliminary but may, to some extent, interest and perhaps enthuse readers.
- A cross country experience
- Traws Cymru – a trip around North Wales
- The lighter side
- St. Michael’s Churchyard, Lichfield through the year
- Ghost signs
- A memory of Dudley Sports Centre
- An election manifesto for Transport
- The 292 bus route from Kidderminster to Ludlow – an important transport link?
- Train services on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways
- Football leagues – development sides and lower divisions
- The World Test Championship
- A new rail connection for Blaenau Ffestiniog?
- The English domestic cricket schedule
- A journey around the fringes of aerodynamics – tornadoes, trees, tricks and trains
- Covid-19 – how risky are church services?
- Covid-19 death rates – an international comparison
- A (half hearted) defence of Autonomous Vehicles and other transport innovations
- The NIC report on “Rail needs assessment for the Midlands and the North” – common sense or betrayal?
- Engineers, roads and ethical standards
- A brief look at the incidence of Covid-19 in UK Universities
- Leisure travel by rail after the pandemic
- Journeys by rail and coach
- The Church of England and Covid19
Orations
The button below links to pdfs containing the orations I made as a Public Orator at the University of Birmingham – presenting the (sometimes) great and (sometimes) good for honorary degrees or other awards.
Engineering, history and ecclesiology 