We had two more birthdays to celebrate tonight (apologies for the photos, taken on my phone rather than on a camera; perhaps I should just admit to not being a photographer!)

Journeys can be great fun, but at times - usually because of bad weather, with poor visibility, high winds and driving rain - they can also be frightening and daunting. Journeys on mountain passes when visibility is not good are particularly dangerous because of the...

The many people who worked in the nib-making industry in Birmingham in the past would probably have told you that they were making nibs. With each worker expected to produce 18,000 nibs a day, the sheer number of nibs produced in the city was phenomenal; it is...