Æthelric

  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...

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 ...

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...