crossing the canal

Old Friends

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November 4th 2011
And this week I met up with three old High School friends in Birmingham, which is pretty central for us all. Its only 12 years since we last met - before that meeting we hadn't met since we left school 30 years earlier. So it was great to find that we still found the same things fun and got on well. We had a nice lunch and a stroll around the canals, and a quick look in the shops. 4 hours went ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more