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…]

The Silent Majority #The52

28th December 2018 0

We have all seen the hashtags the slogans: #FBPE, #The People’s Vote, 2nd referendum, Leavers didn’t know what they were voting for, cliff edge, crashing out etc. As we can see its effective in its [more...]
The Bravais Lattices Song

12th February 2018 0

By Walter F. Smith Sing to the tune of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General” from “The Pirates of Penzance”. If you have to fill a volume with a structure [more...]
Medicine – Part Two

19th June 2018 0

We wuz Kangz! Around 3,000 B.C. we start to see the foundation of ancient civilisations, for example in Egypt. Egypt conquered a number of lands to form an empire, and was in turn conquered itself [more...]
Along the Saxon Shore

2nd January 2019 0

When I lived in London in the early 2000s, I explored all the surrounding counties by bike. Of them, Essex was perhaps the most interesting. It suffers from more negative stereotyping than any other county [more...]
Paris: in search of a different kind of migrant

12th October 2017 0

Some 25 years ago I was sitting in a café/restaurant on the Avenue Trudaine in Paris, eating a starter of ‘des carrots’, the only thing I understood on the handwritten menu. It was a small [more...]