This is my friend Dave, and his dog.
Dave likes his dog. Dogs usually look very happy in photos.
I am editing a book about weather. It is quite good. The author is a highly respected meteorologist from the BBC, and most of the time he succeeds in putting together an entertaining, accessible text.
One feature which I think will provide a particular highlight for the book occurs in chapter nine, on how energy can […]
In the supermarket last night I realised that each of us there faces this decision: are we willing to pay 10p extra to avoid having to use a can opener?
Tins of tomatoes cost 49p, but if you spend 59p you get a tin with a key-thing on top for “easy opening”. 10p = 20 seconds […]
Anybody looking for an exciting new cultural mini-break - in the tradition of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, or the Puck Festival in County Kerry, country music festivals etc…
You could try visiting the West African republic of Benin, where they celebrate a National Voodoo Day on January 10. Obviously this is still 10 […]
From Confessions of An English Opium Eater, by Thomas De Quincy (1821):
“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual; and, for my part, I […]
Just since yesterday morning, the weather here has suddenly changed from cold and dry, with frequent light snow, to damp and rainy.
I think that means that spring is here.
It might be fully five degrees today.
Something that was good in the news this week: Marks & Spencer announced that all their tea and coffee products will […]
While I was riding to work this morning, a light dusting of snow still present on the pavements, I almost rode right over a steaming tea-bag that was lying in the middle of the road.
Then when I got to work, this picture was open on my desktop: