At Stamford where I started in ministry and remember the lady who lived in this perfect house. I think was called Sonie Cloudesley-Seddon and had rather a fascinating life.

I am - once again - surprised by how much is going on at Peterborough station.

Pavilioned in splendour and girded with praise. THAT’S what I’m looking for in an Indian restaurant.

I am at Ipswich Station. It’s had an upgrade and now the shops are where the ticket office should be and the ticket office is where the shops should be. Apart from that it’s great!

Tea on a lovely Thames Sailing Barge with the Merry Wives of Brightlingsea. Thank you Jane and Bread & Roses for your hospitality.

The centenary of the birth of twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records editors, Roy Castle’s Record Breakers judges. Right wing activists, Norris founded The Freedom Association, which supported apartheid S Africa, and Ross was assassinated by the IRA in 1975.

Out with the Pilot at Harwich, who just jumped lithely from our boat to this 366m monster bringing your Christmas present from Singapore.

Just passed the Principality of Sealand. The border was closed.

My sassy new tote bag is the TALK of the Harwich Port Authority.

I think the Dartford Crossing is up there with Lincoln Cathedral as one of the finest views in Britain.

Excellent news! New series of #Fisk promised from Netflix!

CORRECTION York to Kings Cross *withdraws indignant complaint to Uber*.

Chap on the train meant to change at York for Manchester but missed it. Next stop Euston.

Who gets to sit on the Monetary Policy Committee? Are they appointed by the Governor of the BoE?.

An unlikely confluence of Oasis fans and parachute regiment veterans at Edinburgh Waverley #RedBeret #SkyBlue.

150th anniversary of the birth of Albert Ketèlbey, Britain’s most successful composer. His works include In a Monastery Garden and In a Persian Market and by 1930 he was the first sterling millionaire of his profession.

One of the boys at our primary school when I was Vicar of Finedon used to make me laugh every time I tried to do an assembly, and I often wondered what would become of him. Well done, James.

The Edinburgh train is terminating at Newcastle for reasons of existential despair.

Police on the train at Peterborough, where civilisation has died on the 1330 to Edinburgh.

A propos Clarkson’s Farm, I quite like Jeremy Clarkson. I think he’s funny and clever. We don’t overlap politically much, as far as I can tell, but so what?.