Motherwell | Going Postal

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

8th February 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 7th February 2019 Venue: Motherwell Motherwell used to be the steel-making capital of Scotland. Ravenscraig was the main employer of some 13,000 people by the 1970’s but a disastrous strike of steel workers [more…]

Going Postal with Question Time

7th February 2019 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents debate from Motherwell, with a panel of politicians wankpuffins and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. Set your Disqus comments to ‘newest’. Do not [more…]

Interest Calculation

25th November 2019 0

Swiss Bob’s favourite place of work – not actually in the main building, we were fortunate to be about 50m away where we couldn’t be seen staggering back from 2-4 hour lunches This is going [more...]
On Killing Things

3rd January 2020 0

The Switzerland I knew in the 1980s was the other side of the country from Vaud, the remote canton of Graubünden (Grisons), home to German-, Italian- and Romansh-speaking farmers and villagers, where Alpine cattle were [more...]
Gravity is getting me down…

5th February 2020 0

As promised in part two we will now construct an experiment to demonstrate acceleration under gravity, show how vectors can be “resolved” into a 2 dimensional plane (3 three dimensional if you fancy the extra [more...]
This Septic Eye, Ch 4

27th March 2018 0

A bloodshot view through a puffy eye streaming with tears, usually of laughter, occasionally of anger. Rather reluctantly, I attended a Mothering Sunday lunch last week. I have nothing against mothers per se, let me [more...]
What a Father Gives

20th December 2018 0

I first began editing the tribute I gave to my Father at his funeral for sharing here in August. Unfortunately that same month we lost yet another member of the family – my Godfather. He [more...]