Hobbies
Crossword No. 98
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winner. 97 – b-bob. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Hobbies
Arts
Wankpuffin’s 2019 Going Postal Fireside Christmas Special Spectacular
Thanks to all of you who wrote the songs. We couldn’t use all of them, due to lack of time and talent (see grovelling apology in the credits). They will be used in the next [more…]
Fiction
A Going Postal Christmas Carol: Miriam’s Shack
If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 44
There may not be a Santo Domingo and Macapagal intersection, suitable for bus spotting after a courier drop. There is a Roberto Orca and Bonifacio Drive and that’s where we’re stood right now this minute, [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 97
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a Christmas puffin mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Christmas Day subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winner. 96 – Audrey’s Daughter. Answers [more…]
Cooking
21 nourishing meals for Twenty Quid! (Part One)
In the course of a conversation in the comments (which nobody reads) the subject of food banks came up, and specifically a comment made in a newspaper by a Deli owner that he could cook [more…]
Computing
El Cnutador’s Auto Responsive Seeing Eye
Introduction I have always been interested in image processing since my Computer Science and subsequent employment in document management systems. For my final year project, I failed in the ultimate aim simply because back then [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 43
Sunday got off to a strange start, as I hadn’t changed the time on my phone and the rotter hadn’t changed itself. My team turned up for the rendezvous an hour late. We’re stopping in [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 96
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug of your choice, or GP beer mats. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winner. [more…]