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I can’t remember what I was actually searching Google for.

Bath

Things to do on the river in Bath

B and I went on a boat trip along the Avon, while K browsed shops.

There’s a pub overlooking the river at Bathampton. Didn’t know about that.

There’s a place where you can hire rowing boats and punts. Didn’t know about that.

There’s somewhere that hires out canoes and things. Didn’t know about that, either.

Your future: debt

Today’s message to students-to-be is simple: hey kids, welcome to debt!

The new government website aimed at students-to-be is all about debt. How much debt will I be in? How will I pay it back? When will I finish paying it back?

It’s totally the wrong message to send to people. Come to university, accrue enormous debts, but worry about it all later.

I grew up hating the Tories because of their attitude to education. Now I hate Labour, and the Tory/ConDem alliance, for coming up with this disastrous mess instead.

Space greenhouse

Barney and I saw this space greenhouse in the garden of a house in Bath, as we drifted by on the river. It’s amazing. The owner’s garden is amazing all over, every inch of it designed for growing veg. Note the beans climbing strings right down at the water’s edge.

Community-funded blogging for Leeds

Matt Edgar:

I will commit £23.32 per month to a citizen-run news service for Leeds that offers quality writing with a determinedly local focus but only if 35 other local people will do the same « matt.me63.com – Matt Edgar: “Back of an envelope, 36 print subscribers pay the Guardian £10,000 per year. It wouldn’t fund a whole beatblogger but it’s certainly enough to get the ball rolling. If you subscribe to the Guardian (or indeed any other daily paper) in Leeds would you consider switching that spend to a citizen-run news service? I would, and so far seven other people have joined me on Pledgebank.”

Just the simple truth

Kevin Drum:

“In the past decade, Republicans slashed taxes, started two wars, approved a big unfunded entitlement, and presided over an economic collapse that cratered tax revenues and required massive government spending to counteract. That’s pretty much 100% of our existing deficit problem right there. All we’re doing now is trying to clean up the mess the GOP has left us.”

I want to go to St Abbs

There’s some geology there I want to see.

Empathy Quotient calculator

Empathy Quotient.

I scored 56.

One man and his X100

X100Photo | Street photography in the 21st century.

This chap’s got himself an X100, and he’s blogging about getting used to it.