I generally return communications from my colleagues. Generally. It seems in one case George Fizpatrick had been trying to get my attention. Somehow I ignored his couple of letters and his telephone message.  It was not intentional of course. It’s just that I must have gotten distracted by other matters,...

This was not Robert Fidler’s lucky week. Robert Fidler of Redhill, Surrey, England decided to build himself a castle, without obtaining a building permit.  He built the castle together with ramparts and canons keeping it covered with bails of straw and tarpaulins to avoid detection. Somehow, he got caught and...