Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Pheasant eats old cheese biscuits

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Your bonus picture today. The pheasant lives across the road. The crumbled biscuits are rejects from our cheese biscuit box, fallen past t...

Bike crime in our city

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The city of Wells is not a notorious crime hot-spot, but bad stuff still happens. Clare and Alex had a little bike ride out on Sunday. Wh...

"The Way We Die Now" - Seamus O'Mahony

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I too have had the illusion. That as my parents transitioned to death, I would sit with them and have 'the conversation'. The one wh...
Friday, May 27, 2016

A tourist map of physics

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This interesting cube-diagram is from Jess Riedels' blog . The idea of this diagram is that the fundamental theories of physics can...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Lytes Cary Manor

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Phew, what a scorcher! It was 16 degrees when we set out to Lytes Cary Manor (NT) and a shocking 19 when we returned home. Clare fled indoo...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

A song of showers and tepid sunshine

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We came to Game of Thrones soooo late . Daenerys Targaryen Tyrion Lannister Ned and Catelyn at the Keep Wookey Hole ('...
Monday, May 23, 2016

2017 War With Russia: An urgent warning from senior military command

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Amazon link Like David Cameron , I was once in my school's Combined Cadet Force. I have read books on military affairs and profess ...
Friday, May 20, 2016

A visit to Newquay

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We had visited Newquay in Cornwall back in 2012; I remember taking my wife, Clare, my sister-in-law and her husband to the Roman Catholic Ch...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Army ready?

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"The famous run is a 2.4km (1.5 mile) track in which you must complete the full distance within the given time. The time you have to c...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

The economics of small repairs

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Our upstairs bathroom fan died a couple of weeks ago. We did the right things. We asked our neighbour to recommend an electrician and she ...