Noix – Going Postal

Some thoughts on Feedback

27th February 2018 Going Postal 0

It has always been a bugbear for me that there are so few people educated in STEM subjects amongst our politicians. There may be an autistic reason for this, as people are much more frustrating [more…]

Italian Tile Break

24th April 2017 Going Postal 0

Four years ago I found myself rebuilding a house in Provence. We had attempted to use architects but not been able to find one willing to follow our instructions and so I had to do [more…]

Benjamin Thompson

29th August 2016 Going Postal 0

Rumford by Gainsborough He was born in Woburn, Massachusetts in 1753 and was educated in the village school until he was thirteen. Sometimes he would walk the ten miles with an older friend to Cambridge [more…]

Military Ghosts – Lincolnshire’s and other Airfields

1st November 2017 0

The ending of Len Deighton’s meticulously researched novel “Bomber” is in my opinion some of the most poignant written words to appear in a book. He describes visiting the fictional bomber airfield of Warley Fen, [more...]
Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz, The Girl From Ipanema, 1964

4th August 2016 0

“Garota de Ipanema” (“The Girl from Ipanema”) is a Brazilian bossa nova jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was [more...]
The Sun

28th February 2017 0

A long solar filament erupted and rushed away from the Sun (Oct. 15, 2002) Ask anybody about the workings of the Sun and some will say that it relies on nuclear fusion for its energy [more...]
And then there were none

27th June 2016 0

I walked into the count steeled for a Remain win. We’d spent the last few hours, in grotty weather, ‘getting out the vote’ in a strong Remainer area – but someone had to do it [more...]
Conservative Punks F**k Off!!! – Part One

19th September 2017 0

There is a certain element to some personalities that sometimes predisposes it to form an outlook that on occasion contravenes the expected. The forms by which these appear are infinitesimal in kind, but the mainstay [more...]