The two perennial bugbears of the countryside are dogshit and dumping. I will spare you the former, for […]
Category Archive: Life
The Isle of Wight is, I believe, the closest that the UK gets to the Mediterranean. You can […]
Virtual reality (VR) is hardly new, nor experimental. Aircraft pilots and ships’ crews have been training in VR […]
I get a lot of press releases, but few are as strange and fascinating as that from MJ […]
“Lonely Planet’s Instant Expert. A Visual Guide to the Skills You’ve Always Wanted.” by Nigel Holmes Lonely Planet […]
Two years after Lance Armstrong finally admitted to having systematically and for many years cheated by doping, he […]
How long is your working week? According to press reports, UK workers average 42 hours or more; according […]
Why are governments so obsessed with spending, budgets, and accounts? Most have taken to frequent announcements of intended […]
Switching from print to blog is a big step. Not only have I lost my editor, or rather […]
When you last walked a footpath (in the UK), do you remember its number? Yesterday, when walking up […]
