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The only heated room was the living room when the coal fire was alight. The kitchen only had heat when...

Who remembers living in a house without central heating, no double glazing, no loft insulation etc. and waking up and...

I wrote this piece 17 years ago for fun as part of a series about the life I was living...

Want to see the best example of why the iPad isn’t really a multi-tasking professional machine yet? Try opening...

Yesterday blue skies....

That’s quite some sky...

I always have a temptation with these notes to begin them with “this week, I have mostly been eating elderberries”...

Yep....

George’s ability to find the warmest spot in the house is really quite spectacular....

23 books read in a year isn’t a bad effort, especially given the fact that remarkably few of them...

Chaffinches are funny little birds – like something drawn by a three year old, all triangular body and spindle legs. They...

I suspect that the Venn diagram of people who own both an M1 Mac and a Surface Pro X is...

I lasted a day without preordering a new Mac running Apple’s M1 processor. That’s an improvement, right? Better...

This week was the deadline for the latest piece of coursework in the masters that I’m working on (senior...

Of course, a couple of weeks go I should have said that I was on holiday so wouldn’t be...