Engineering
Motor Torpedo Boat 102
Back in the mid 1970s we had a boat at Brundall marina on the Norfolk Broads. It was a standard marina, nothing fancy, but functional. I was around seven or eight, and before I was [more…]
Month: April 2018
Communism
The Evil of Socialism
It has long been argued that national and international socialism have more in common (*cough) than ought to please either one of them. Mentioning this obviously triggers lefties bigly and leads to the usual avalanche [more…]
Hobbies
A Hamiltonian Path in the Natural Numbers
In graph theory, a graph is a mathematical structure. It has vertices and edges and we are interested in pairwise relationships. A Hamiltonian path is a walk that visits each vertex exactly once, as opposed [more…]
History
Operation Sealion – Part 6
Food Glorious Food – Rationing and Digging for Victory During the First World War, Britain had seen dangerously long queues for food, as the German U-boat offensive began to bite. Rationing was started in 1917, [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 3.3
ACT 3 SCENE 3 The Entrance of the Royal Palace at Purdonium. Enter GONBAD, in a Chariot drawn by twelve of his Wives chained together.
America
Brohemian Rhapsody. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Politics was turned upside down in 2016 and the shock waves from the event have had repercussions. The comfortable political incumbents and established financial powerhouses saw political events that made them and their media outlets [more…]
America
President Donald Trump Holds Rally in Washington, MI
Start time 1.00 am, post publication time, but you’ll still be waiting. If for any reason this link doesn’t work I’m sure someone will post one up. Do not post music videos please. Swiss [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Thirty Six
At least Lena hadn’t done a runner, nor did she seem to be having second thoughts, she had just lapsed into fatalistic passivity, as if having made this one big decision her life could continue [more…]
Arts
Hypnosis – so what’s it all about?
The subject of hypnosis is one that often evokes more misinformed comments than almost any other. It is something embedded in popular culture, but very few people have any “proper” experience of it. Songs, books [more…]