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This week was mainly spent marking. I shouldn't complain - at least some of the kids do all of the work I set - but it takes hours and hours to mark it all afterwards ! The worst thing about it coming in by email is that there's no end. Just as you mark the last piece, you hit refresh in your inbox and there's a load more. At least when you collect written work, you can see the pile getting smaller and smaller ! Ah well !Sunday 3rd May - Another Sunday afternoon walk with Pierre. We're only allowed...

The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said that moving beyond the coronavirus pandemic will be a “gradual process, not a single leap to freedom” as he announced a £2bn package to support cycling and walking. The prime minister is expected to announce only very modest changes in detailing his “roadmap” for easing the lockdown in his televised address on Sunday evening, but there are concerns that mixed messaging has prompted the public to head outside. Warning that it will take some time for things to get back to normal, Shapps said: “Moving beyond Covid will be a gradual process, not...

My first contact with my new neighbor was a typed note on my car at a trailhead up the dirt road from my house. After years of medical training, I had finally started working as an emergency-room doctor and was able to buy my dream home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. I had lived on my quiet rural plot for nearly a year with my wife and three kids. The note told me to not park on this “private road.”  “You are intruding and your car will be towed if seen again.”  Fine. My kids and I could walk...

Police seek information in their investigation into an apparent stabbing that took place last week in Nanaimo. According to a Nanaimo RCMP press release, investigators are looking into an incident in which a 20-year-old man received a serious but non-life threatening injury in an altercation that took place between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on April 27. The incident was said to occur somewhere between Cedar Road and downtown Nanaimo. Police attended Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and spoke with the victim, who had numerous cuts, bruises and was being treated for an apparent stab wound, said the press release. The...

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