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Sheds

19th March 2018 Colin Cross 0

As I get older I find myself, more and more, thinking about how different life was in the 1950’s and 60’s and also how, through the eyes of a child, things seemed so very simple. [more…]

Work on the layout has slowed a little with the recent weather disruptions affecting routines. The successful completion of the cyclists/ Sweeney run was also the closing of a chapter. As you can see Wiggins [more…]

Postcard from Taormina, Sicily

9th March 2018 Going Postal 0

May 2017 Taormina was the venue for the G7 attended by the various world leaders and as I watched I remembered my holiday there. It was 1980 and we booked a fortnight knowing nothing of [more…]

Postcard from Sirhowy Valley Country Park

5th March 2018 Jonathon Davies 0

This is another of my favourite places to walk. (In a previous post I covered Llwyn-on.) A quick jaunt from Cardiff eastbound on the M4 to junction 28 then up the A467 will bring you [more…]

Shunting into February

19th February 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

Thank you for all your kind comments upon this series of posts. As you’ve probably noticed the cyclists aren’t as reliable as they need to be, and that has been bothering me. They’re meant to [more…]

Shunting towards Spring

11th February 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

Following the terrible van attack witnessed in last month’s instalment, I am pleased to inform you that the cyclists have survived and are in good health. A kink in the road at the top of [more…]

A Balls-Up in and out of the Barracks

30th January 2018 Going Postal 0

Everyday dental life in the Clinic was fairly normal. Normal that is if I had been used to working in a practice with limited equipment and materials, alongside three other dentists, one of whom had [more…]

Shunting into January

23rd January 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

Shunting on Finally back into the routine after something of a hiatus during the Christmas period. I had been looking forward to the break to get ahead, but the opposite occurred. Not only due to [more…]

The Internet

6th January 2018 El Cnutador 2,527

“Commodore VIC-20” by Soupmeister is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 So there I was, at 16, with my Commodore 64, a Programmers Reference Guide and no assembler, translating assembly instructions into hexadecimal opcodes, by hand, [more…]