Computing
Testing, Testing, Testing!
I am a techno-luddite when it comes to mobile phones. “I just want it to ring when someone calls me and I want to call other people”. When I had a trip planned to Colorado [more…]
Human Interest
Human Interest
Gtech HyLite model SCV100 – product review
‘I started Gtech to create sensible, easy-to-use products, which do a great job’ Nick Grey – inventor and owner of Gtech. Well, I think Mr Grey has achieved that in this case. Read on to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Fifty One
Monday Oh lovely another sunny morning. A delightful stroll around the No. 10 garden pre-breakfast before it gets too warm. I am convinced something has been in the garden overnight, there are some different scents. [more…]
Biography
Off to prison under Military aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA)
Let me start at the beginning of my knowledge. I spent my 21st Birthday in Prison. A simple statement. Mind you, as I had spent my 19th Birthday at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, my [more…]
Economics
The Best Thing I Ever Bought
Ask yourself, ‘What is the best thing I ever bought?’ Probably a house, car, meal, holiday or maybe an item of clothing. Or maybe that power tool you can’t do without, it’s adaptable and sorts [more…]
Cooking
The Bucket List Part One – Pork Pies
[Author’s note – this may be a very short series of articles as my bucket list is not especially fulsome. To give you an idea, item one on it was “Own a bucket”. This might [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Fifty
Monday Another week begins with baby Wilf waking me up early again, this is getting too regular I need my beauty sleep. At least it was my favourite for Breakfast. The Little Otter was asking [more…]
Arts
My Apprenticeship, Part Two
Part one went through the first two years of my drawing office apprenticeship with Babcock and Wilcox Ltd. During the second year, Babcock and Wilcox Ltd became Babcock and Wilcox (Operations) Limited. The first of [more…]
20th Century
An early airman’s tragic adventure
Early 1930: It had been a depressing English winter – cold, dark and wet for weeks on end. In West Wickham, a young man who had left Australia five years earlier and settled here in [more…]