Engineering
Unnecessary Engineering
Project 1: Scope Dials Welcome all and please gather round so I can waste a few minutes of your precious time on describing something that didn’t really need doing and no doubt would interest few. [more…]
Blog
Health
Your GP is simply a functionary
You were probably brought up on such medical TV programmes, depending on your age, as Dr.Kildare, Emergency Ward 10, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook or the many subsequent programmes of a similar genre. The implication of such [more…]
17th Century
A View From The Greenhouse (A Savile Jibe, Really?)
If you thought strawberry tales was boring, then I guess you’d better hold my coat (as the saying goes). Following several days of not being able to even enter the greenhouse, apart from a cursory [more…]
Arts
King Arthur And The Battle Of Hastings
Old, unhappy far-off things, and battles long ago… How do we know about King Arthur? Please note that this is not a rehash of the old “Did King Arthur exist?” historical chestnut. Whether or not [more…]
Arts
Another Caribbean Christmas, Part Four
Day 6 – Wednesday 29th December – St. Maarten Good morning from the beautiful tiny island of St. Maarten. I woke as we approached the port just as the sun was coming up, I think [more…]
Going Postal
Cipher – A Tribute To OldTrout
Introduction Cipher – meaning zero (0), nothing or an empty set. Decipher – to make something out of that seemingly meaningless nothing. Caroline or ‘Old Trout’ (as we affectionately remember her) was a brilliant mathematician. [more…]
Fiction
The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 23
Headquarters DEA, in the Pentagon City area of Arlington, Virginia. St Juan de Pasto Main Operating Base and Bogota On the day Edge got back to Pasto, members of the General Council of the CIA [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Nine
Monday Morning all, another week stretches in front of me, I wonder what will happen this week. Bozzie was on the phone to that Muslim woman who claims she was told that she was being [more…]
Christianity
You cannot have goodness, without God (ii)
O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom: Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our [more…]