I don’t really do quizzes on this site, but when I saw this photo I had to find out whether anybody would have any idea where it is/was. So… any guesses as to the location of this fort? Full brownie points for the exact location, but I’ll be impressed if anybody gets the town/city or […]
Entries from October 31st, 2008
The Impossible Dream
October 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Politics
Did I miss a meeting or something? I received a letter from the Labour party today. Nothing unusual about that: once you get on those mailing lists you can look forward to a lifetime of emails and as a parliamentary candidate you get even more. I was expecting that. What I was not expecting, as […]
Build It Up, Tear It Down
October 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Build It Up, Tear It Down · Technology
Last week I went a little outside my comfort zone when selecting products from Amazon’s Vine programme to review and chose a software package – something called WebSite X5 which is, not surprisingly, a website creation package.  This site runs under WordPress so there is no point using another package here, but I do have […]
Cat Scratch Fever
October 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Cat Scratch Fever · Life, Technology
The other day we had another merry-go-round with mobile phones. Jane is now back with her original white one and I now have the black one that was originally Chrystal’s and then Jayne’s. The reason was that the black phone was not ringing and Jayne kept missing calls. She figured that a non-ringing phone was […]
Run To The Hills
October 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
This evening I was looking at a PDF copy of a brochure for the Canon EOS 450D camera, which looks like a tasty piece of kit. I found pages eight and nine a little worrying.
Seek And Destroy
October 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Seek And Destroy · Technology
Charlie has been asking me to look at his computer for a few days now, but always picks the wrong time to ask – like after midnight, or when the football is on TV. Today he caught me at a better time so I went to see what the matter was.
Sailing On The Seven Seas
October 26th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Politics
I have been to Corfu on holiday a total of four times. I would happily go back again, in fact Jayne and I have thought it would be a decent place to retire to. Here is a little secret about the place that I will happily pass on to the likes of Osborne and Mandelson: […]
Hurry Up Harry
October 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hurry Up Harry · Life
I can’t wait until the morning. I am really looking forward to telling Jayne who her club have got as a new manager. When Harry Redknapp was in charge at West Ham she always used to laugh at him so she is not going to take it well. Could be a good move for Spurs […]
Tags: Football
Weather With You
October 25th, 2008 · Comments Off on Weather With You · Jane
I don’t know if Skuds has noticed this but whenever I am involved in a Friends of the Earth day of action, as I was today, the weather is always awful. In April, when we were campaigning on including aviation and shipping emissions in the UK targets, it snowed; in the summer, when we were […]
Tags: FoE environment
Picture This
October 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Picture This · Life
I enjoy taking photographs and appreciate well-composed photos that other people have taken, but very rarely do I find myself going “wow” at a photograph as much I did with the photo by Simon Norfolk in today’s Guardian. It really does look like a painting. As it was taken with one of those large photographic […]
Tags: Photos