Hobbies
The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Four
Perhaps it’s worth mentioning the tool I use for cutting sheet and plate steel, a standard 4.5 inch angle grinder. ½ inch thickness can be dealt with quite easily and if you mark the job [more…]
Blog
20th Century
The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Seven
With Charles Lynton playing his alphabet soup word games, the West opted to ignore the religionist/secularist opposition which was slowly eating away in the Muslim world, and chose to concentrate their efforts only on the [more…]
Animals
Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Seven
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a very long while – you may want to refresh [more…]
Business
War is the health of the State
This is precisely what the State is doing. The idea of war, mayhem and destruction being economic boosters is exactly what has supported the thin facade that politicians like to place over their greed and [more…]
Computing
How to 3d Print – a beginners guide, Part 2
In part 2 (Part 1) we are going to take a 2d design and make it 3d. Once you do this then you will see that anything can be made 3d-ish. First we load up [more…]
Economics
The Chancellor’s “Autumn Mis-Statement” – An Exercise in Fiscal Subterfuge
The deeply embedded disconnect between hype and reality looms larger than ever in government thinking. A little over a year ago Liz Truss attempted a dose of supply-side reforms to address the country’s desperate need [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fourteen
Monday Well, it’s Monday again and surprise, surprise it’s wet. It was nice not to have the pro-Hamas lot ‘marching for peace’ in central London on Saturday. I really wish I could understand what they [more…]
Going Postal
GP Update December 2023
Another year and we still haven’t left the EU! plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Also another year of divide and conquer. It is surprisingly effective. TPTB shout squirrel and many of us [more…]
20th Century
Next Stop Jungle Junction
Following some confusion regarding a caption mentioning both Southsea and Southampton, your humble reviewer of old photographs realised that the 1949 picture in my grandparents’ family album was of a flying boat called Southsea coming [more…]