Æthelric

We have three supermarkets next to each other who sell logs within easy distance.  namely ALDI, B&M, and Tesco.  I decided to compare th...

  We decided to keep our multi fuel stove for another year and run it on logs.We have been running it on smokless fuel up until ...

We were listening to Boom Radio this morning but we finally had to turn it off.  All we could hear was the rhythm tracks.  The vocals were c...

Americans were voting as started to write this.   Coincidentally this was the day in the UK where we traditionally burn an effigy of Guy Fa...

I have just cancelled my Which subscription.  I have been a member for around five years,  and have found their reviews fairly usefu...

The Logical Destiny of AI Let’s do a little extrapolating from the present to the next few hundred years based on developments over th...

The Exam Results When I took my GCE “A” levels, a little over 50 years ago I got two B’s and a C. These were good marks. Only the top 1% ...

Life in a low tax economy The governments of all colours in the UK seem intent on pursuing or claiming to pursue a low tax economy.So ...

Truth and Bluff (Negotiations from a position of weakness) In recent years I have noticed how political posturing, spin bias and fake ne...

Our planet Usually when the statistics of the earth are described, diagrams are used. Somewhere in the description is the disclai...

We were warned “Enjoy life while you can. Because if you’re lucky it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.” James Ep...

Not be a minute. I’ll just tune up. Can I have the music stand please. It’s a bit low for me, can you raise it pl...

Why aren't we building more houses? Well, let us start off by imagining the situation if we were building lots of council houses. These ...

Drought?? Cornwall has been under a hosepipe ban since August 2022. In November 2022, SW water said:- Reservoir levels across the Sout...

What Harm have these poor pieces of paper done you? The government has just fined Southern water £90,000,000 for pouring sewage int...

Our shower switch broke.  So I ordered another on Amazon Prime for next day delivery.  I got an email saying it had ben dispatched. It didn...

Is "War Zone" a strong word here? Vladamir Putin and the Russian government are waging war on Ukraine, and civilian deaths a...

There can only be one Universe - simply because "uni" means one. In the Multiverse there are not Universes - only Verses.

“ Only a fraction “. It’s a phrase that is in very common use. What does it mean? A quarter, an eighth, fifteen sixteenths or maybe...

In a nutshell:- We have to keep we rich getting richer at the rate to which we have become accustomed.  So that means that ...

If anyone is wondering how the energy crisis works this may help to make it clear. Supply and Demand There once was a little village miles...

Why does everyone Lie? This post was originally posted on 2nd April 2020, but todays events are simply staggering. Boris Johnson,...

The Education Gravy Train This is a follow on from a post three years ago “ Education education education ” Not much has changed. ...

 I was an electronic engineer for most of my working life.  During all of that time I used the word “data” lots of times, every day. ...

I was born in the North East of England and lived there for 27 years.  I then lived in Scotland for the next 42 years. (I now live in C...

Maybe it's what happens as you get old yourself.  Identification with old things maybe, or simply resistance to change. For example, my ...

Warning – Technology Ran I Skype with my son in Melbourne every other Thursday at 9:30am my time, 8:30pm his time. This morning I switched ...

My last post  on this site was 13 years ago!  In my first post I said One of two things will happen now. I'll either drop...

11th September 2045 Today we remember the tragic destruction of the twin towers in New York forty four years ago, and celebrate Cornish ...

Tony Blair’s goal was to get 50% of the population into further education. This has been taken to mean 50% of the population will have...

I usually take Bruno, my very long legged border collie on a walk in the morning. Coming back, I wandered up the stairs into the grounds of...

I've just come off the phone after talking to my son in Oz. He's touring with his girlfriend and her parents and they are now in Al...

Why the hell have I set up a blog? Is it the budding writer in me? Do I want to get something off my chest? Maybe I want to explain to the...