Arts
In Depth MIDI File Operations in C#
Download source code from GitHub Prologue We all have a lot of time on our hands right now, and some of you cunts need to #learntocode. As such, I’m presenting content like this from time [more…]
Hobbies
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Four
Monday Good day readers. It’s Monday again and it looks like it’s going to be another busy week from the mutterings I tuned into over breakfast. Bozzie is holding another one of those Cobra meetings [more…]
Gardening
Ooh, Aarr, A Guide To Rough Vegetable Gardening, Part 2
Alongside the onerous but rewarding task of preparing the ground for planting there are other jobs requiring the rough gardeners attention before the season gets into full swing. Being a Yorkshire man by birth, if [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 113
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug and keyring! Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winners. tbd. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Animals
D’ye laike dags?
The politicians lick our bones, The tacticians, hearts of stone They turn us against our brothers Make us fight and kill each other Locked in lust we put our trust in dogs – Motorhead, “Dogs”. [more…]
Fishing
Goin’ fishing
Want to go fishing? OK be down at the harbour for 1.30 a.m. we’ll have got the 1 am forecast, fuelled up, did that before we tied up yesterday, wife organised two tons of ice [more…]
Arts
Collecting Paintings
In case the subject is off-putting, it may assist if I give a brief history of my own collection. It became a hobby of middle age. I had very little knowledge of the subject and [more…]
Arts
Postcard from the Past: Ailsa Craig
Most people will be familiar with Ailsa Craig as the big rock on the horizon during the ferry journey between Loch Ryan in Galloway and Ulster. It stands as a sentinel at the seaward end [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Three
Monday Morning all, welcome to another week’s happenings in Westminster from your favourite cat Diarist (I have to big myself up, no one else will). A story this morning proves that some people never learn. [more…]