I would not want you to think that I spent all my recent skiing trip pondering the technical aspects of computer assisted review. In fact, I confess to spending almost all my recent seven days in Austria doing nothing much except enjoying the atmosphere, the food and, by and large, the snow conditions. However, one… Read More: Nimrod »
Sitting on a plane recently, I was passing the time between one gin and tonic and the next by reading The Daily Telegraph. With thoughts about today’s Budget filling the columns I was bemused to learn from an article by Ian Cowie that we paid a truly mind boggling £437.6 billion in taxes in the… Read More: Plane speaking »
Bates is a reasonably common English surname. It may derive from the Old English “bat” meaning a boat and thus boatman. It may be a diminutive of “Bartholomew” which itself is a patronymic meaning “rich in land.” For example there is a record of a Bate le Tackman owning land in Lincolnshire in the 13th… Read More: Where to now, Bates? »