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A (Burts’ Eye)View From The Greenhouse; What’s Anglo-futurism, When It’s All At Home?

8th July 2025 Colin Cross 2068 Comments

It’s an easy mistake to make, Burt and I (although, TBF, Burt’s a few inches taller than I am) are easily confused when viewed from the rear, bending down (as it were). Any road up, [more…]

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Digitising Old Cine Films

7th July 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 1988 Comments

Having modernised and saved the old family photos and audio recordings for ‘posterity’ by converting them to digital format, attention turned to the family cine films, shot in the 1960s and early 1970s: 24 reels [more…]

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Cruising to the Canaries – Part One

6th July 2025 Going Postal 2056 Comments

Day One – Saturday As I have made the Baltic level of the P&O Peninsula Club, I have a few perks on this holiday, one of which is an early boarding time. Today I am [more…]

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Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 Tom Pudding 2545 Comments

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]

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1st July 2025 Joe Slater 2141 Comments

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

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Playing With Electricity – Part 3

25th June 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 2373 Comments

“Your nose will grow…” I’m sure that we can all recall some of these admonitions from our youth: “Keep looking like that and your face will stick!” – Why? To what? Surely that isn’t in [more…]

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A (Burts’ Eye) View From The Greenhouse; Feminism Or Infanticide

24th June 2025 Colin Cross 2117 Comments

A busy long weekend just completed with a trip to the railway station. Mrs C’s birthday was graced by the presence of our friends from Essex who haven’t graced us with their presence (it’s a [more…]

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Digitising Old Audio Tapes

23rd June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2443 Comments

There were three tasks involved in modernising and preserving the family archive, the second of which was to digitise the audio recordings. Digitising the old photographs was covered in a previous article, while digitising the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Six

22nd June 2025 Going Postal 3109 Comments

Monday Good morning my happy readers, it is dry and a bit warmer this morning. The Donald isn’t messing about with the illegals in California. He hasn’t hesitated to send in the National Guard to [more…]

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