Continuing our look at Sir Bryan's diplomatic memories in his webinar on March 10 (see post March 18) - hosted by Bradford University and...

KesterTester 31 - Excuse me for the British bias - Consett was an industrial town in the Pennine foothills of NE England with one...

Former British Ambassador to Budapest and Moscow, Sir Bryan Cartledge - long free from Diplomatic Shackles - Talks from Gorbachov via...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 17 - Steam and Iron Curtain Don't Mix - part 4: Photo: A concrete fort, on the edge of the...

And Now - 1.3m inoculated - deaths top 17,000 as hospitals struggle with 9,000 Covid patients Photo: 32 years ago today, Hungarians...

KesterTester 30 - Something different this week. These people were all Hungarian MPs at different times, and public figures in the 1990s...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 16. It's time to cross this bizarre Iron Curtain. ​Photo: A section of the Czechoslovak border...

Controversy rages over vaccination programme as infections hit new daily record of 7,200 plus Vaccinations Going Well! The photo...

KesterTester 29 - Since it's been sunny of late, this photo seems appropriate for today, even if just as a reminder of how life was...

Part 2: First Forays into Vienna / Lower Austria - Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 15 Photo: Strong evening light illuminates...

​PM Orbán warns country is facing "toughest two weeks of the pandemic" - urges public to register for inocculation Above: A screen shot...

KesterTester 28 - It's somewhere between Vilnius and Varna - in SE-CE Europe - mid-90s I don't quite know how I got this photo of the boy...

Czechoslovak Adventure, Winter, 1973 - Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 14 A Scene from rural central Europe, taken in 1993....

Could it be English? Russian? Mandarin? Arabic? Or a Tongue yet More Exotic? ​Table: A section of the table revealing the numbers of...

And quite right too - Except we have to define 'Work" properly KesterTester 27 A photograph from 1993, if I recall correctly. No...

The problem with public surveys - as illustrated by so perfectly by Sir Humphrey Photo: Another scene from Yes, Prime Minister. A gaping...

What is a burpee, you might ask? Up until last Thursday, I certainly did. Indeed, grammatically, is one allowed to burpee? Can it be a...

"I know this is a difficult concept to get across to a politician." Sir Humphrey (played by the late, South African-born Sir Nigel...

GuesterTester 26 - This is Central/South Eastern Europe - but where? A slightly different Tester this week, because it's not one of my...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) -13 - UPDATED with answers Time for another steam-sociological photo. What can I say without...