Wading Through Treacle

When you’re self-employed, one of the most difficult things you have to do is negotiate the rate for the job with a client. All books on con...

A lot of people are short-sighted - have myopia. The prevalence in western countries is 30-40% and in asian countries as high as 80%. This i...

Clare, in that Cherie Booth, proletarian, working-class way of hers, has finally rebelled against The Sunday Times . The last straw was a se...

The second volume of the hard-edged fantasy trilogy, following "The Steel Remains". Morgan's swords and sorcery epic set in a ...

The Vue, Cribbs Causeway, was full to capacity for the 12.40 pm performance - on a Sunday?!? When we left at 3.30 the queue snaked out of t...

This hairy thing, looking like a shock-jock's hair, was growing in our front garden. It's been relocated to the composting cage wher...

A review of Iain M. Banks' latest Culture novel . The Gzilt are in their final weeks before Subliming when a political crisis emerges....

Here's my mother discussing her new iPad with grandson Adrian (click on the picture to make larger). And below our stock of goodies for ...

Wiki Weapon (google it). The project for an open-source weapon constructable by a 3D-printer. Download the schematic via the Internet and yo...

A visitor found this morning in our recycling box, stored at the end of the garden (below). My brother wrote to advise it was probably a to...