Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Four
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here This time: I make a friend and a ram raid I am settling [more…]
Engineering
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Three
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here This time: Fire alarms, posh houses and the directors. Getting well into my list of service calls [more…]
20th Century
2,4,6,8 Motorway
Back when motoring was fun…. Tom Robinson was singing this song about our road network to us back in the Seventies, when he wasn’t sharing his anthemic “Sing if you’re glad to be gay”. That [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Two
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here This time: Fire damage, I meet the Geezer and being on call. Following the call from Melanie to head to a [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part One
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. In March 1994, I found myself working for one of the UK’s leading privately owned alarm companies. I had secured a job as an alarm [more…]
Arts
The Cnuteneering Home For Wayward Lathes and Milling Machines Part 2^w 3.
Welcome back once more to the Cnuteneering Home For Wayward Lathes and Milling Machines (CHFWLMM Charitable Foundation, listed in Bermuda alongside Tony Blairs Foundation shell companies). We left the last installment with the establishment of [more…]
19th Century
Ancient and Modern (or a Tale of Two Cartridges: 2)
In Part One I described the processes involved in reloading the (to me at any rate) ‘modern’ .303 British cartridge, all stages of which can easily be automated. Now let’s look at what is involved [more…]
16th Century
The History of the Pencil
Before the pencil Pens and ink have been in existence for a very long time, being used by the ancient Egyptians for writing and drawing on papyrus, a papery substance made by beating reeds flat. [more…]
Animals
The Cnuteneering Home For Wayward Lathes and Mills
As many of you know I have been hankering after a milling machine for some time. Not being able to justify the price of a shiny new one I have been religiously checking ebay and [more…]