Cooking
The Christmas Cake, Part One
It’s a somewhat inclement Sunday morning approaching the end of October, the lawn which just a few short weeks ago was dead and brown is now lush and green but under an inch of water [more…]
Hobbies
Arts
Night and Low Light Photography
This article is in response to a number of questions and requests by posters on here; in particular, how to take a photograph of the Moon and not have the highlights blown out. However, I [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Nine
Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of my musings. It’s back to Parliament today with the conference season over. Well, perhaps I should alter that a bit, as the SNP are holding their [more…]
20th Century
Blitz And Rebuilding
Plymouth and the Blitz Plymouth is a city located in the county of Devon. Geographically, it is positioned on the south coast and is approximately 36 miles southwest of Exeter and 193 miles southwest of [more…]
Computing
The Slide Rule – Part 2
photo: featured_image.jpg Introduction Note: This article uses Mathjax script. Some script blocking web-browser plugins can prevent the mathematics from been rendered correctly. DM In the first part we looked at how to make a simple [more…]
Cooking
A View (Just Along The Road) From The Greenhouse; Working Class Heroes….Innit?
Autumn continues its steady, inexorable path towards winter and this year its bringing along with it a profusion of berries. The hawthorn has been particularly prolific and now the holly’s joining in. Plums and damsons, [more…]
19th Century
Oliver Sarony – man of many parts
My last lurcher, over 16, who used to run like the wind delighting in her agility but only a memory sadly, because of her age we used to take very sedate walks with much deciphering [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eight
Monday Good morning everyone, according to the BBC it is supposed to be warm and sunny today, but I see no sun, admittedly it is warm, but it is cloudy. While on the subject of [more…]
19th Century
The Wrong Colour of Coffin
Dartmoor Dartmoor is a vast, ancient landscape located in the county of Devon. Covering 20 miles by 14 miles, the 80,000 acres of extensive hilly district in the western part of the county are known [more…]