recent posts
- The “Alpine Divorce”: chauvinistic behaviour not limited to the Alps
- Norwich Community Gardens Festival: gardening all over the city
- Exploring fatherhood: how can dads do better?
- From cars to cargo bikes: how families found freedom
- “Cargo bike riders travel around the city like drivers used to in the 1950s: in style.”
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Over the last two months, the term “Alpine Divorce” has emerged in social media to denote situations where (predominantly) men leave (predominantly) women behind during mountaineering expeditions. The beginning of this trend can be traced to an Austrian court case from February. The court made headlines around the world when it convicted an amateur mountaineer…
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I wrote an article for East Anglia Bylines about the upcoming Community Gardens Festival in Norwich.
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I wrote an article for East Anglia Bylines on my experiences attending two workshops as part of Norwich Theatre’s Fatherhood series.
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A shorter version of the article below appeared in East Anglia Bylines on 14th November 2025:
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A new study shows that households can use electric cargo bikes to halve car miles – and a pilot scheme in Norwich is helping residents make the shift A family participating in the ELEVATE experiment in 2023/24 What happens if you just give people electric cargo bikes? This was the radical question researchers in Leeds,…
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Hello. My name is Matthew O’Conner Lomas and I am a British-German writer based in Norwich. Welcome to my blog, where I collect articles that I write for both British and German audiences. I also have a German-language podcast about equal parenting and gender equality which you can find at www.partnerschaftsbonus-podcast.de