Hobbies
A Postcard from Raglan Castle
History of the castle Raglan Castle (or Castell Rhaglan if you speak Welsh) is situated to the north of the village of Raglan in the county of Monmouthshire. The site has been used a defensive [more…]
Hobbies
Computing
How to 3d Print – a beginners guide, Part 3
So the printer sits and sits and sits. It says it can help solve all your problems but just looks at you, waiting. Then it comes! The shops are shut, the cupboard pole has collapsed [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifteen
Monday It’s Monday again and it’s wet again. Everyone was watching football in the office yesterday; at times they had two games on at the same time (on different TVs!). I had trouble working out [more…]
20th Century
Unlikely Battle Honours
Scarborough is a renowned seaside town located in North Yorkshire. It is the most populous town on the Yorkshire coast with a population in the sixty thousands. The town has a rich historical background, with [more…]
Hobbies
The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Four
Perhaps it’s worth mentioning the tool I use for cutting sheet and plate steel, a standard 4.5 inch angle grinder. ½ inch thickness can be dealt with quite easily and if you mark the job [more…]
Animals
Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Seven
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a very long while – you may want to refresh [more…]
Computing
How to 3d Print – a beginners guide, Part 2
In part 2 (Part 1) we are going to take a 2d design and make it 3d. Once you do this then you will see that anything can be made 3d-ish. First we load up [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fourteen
Monday Well, it’s Monday again and surprise, surprise it’s wet. It was nice not to have the pro-Hamas lot ‘marching for peace’ in central London on Saturday. I really wish I could understand what they [more…]
20th Century
Next Stop Jungle Junction
Following some confusion regarding a caption mentioning both Southsea and Southampton, your humble reviewer of old photographs realised that the 1949 picture in my grandparents’ family album was of a flying boat called Southsea coming [more…]