Haha! We all think we don't need a box of clowns and yet these disappeared from the shop window where I saw them pretty quickly (and I don't think the charity shop just dumped them!) I think that part

It is amazing how quickly we've gotten used to being able to not care. Around 1990, I couldn't imagine ever wanting anything more than about 10MB

Yes those "Privately Owned Public Spaces" are a menace. I'm generally in the camp that is "angry about this kind of thing, but feeling powerless"

I am not a pheasant plucker... etc :D Things here are good thanks, first frost of the season makes it feel quite Christmassy today.

I didn't know they were a thing until we bought this house. Definitely going back to battery-only from here.

Yeah, the other thing I noticed this morning was that they have "replace by" date on them of March 2025 so they all need to go...

they're amazing bits of engineering really, like most post-war analog devices. And they were meant to be serviced and maintained, not just replaced when they stopped working. I've got a service manual

Haha! Swatch time can still be displayed by the PHP datetime format :D

Much to be grateful for with these little creatures. Someone was telling me the other day that dragonflies are important (to us!) for reducing numbers of mosquitoes.

Yep, those are the ones that I notice most, but I expect there are all kinds around. I think mostly they hang out under the floorboards (we have airbricks that let them in and out) and then when they want

My dad was a data clerk at this point, that's what it says on my birth certificate - his dad had been a "Sales Ledger Clerk" all through his career - it always tickled me that my grandad felt

Yeah, I can only just imagine what it was like when there weren't even calculators to do this. Let alone the weird 240 pennies to a pound arithmetic!

Well, thanks for the plaudits and the prize - very nobel of you! (that's just a little prize pun, not my entry!) I heard a story about Einstein, when he first got to the US in the thirties, he was very

Gratefully received! #splat

Very respectable. I've come to accept that I can do 5k or run for 30 minutes, but not both in the same run :)

My Australian friend was admiring my vegetable patch. He said "Nice tomatoes, ya crazy Pom. Adorable!"

Nice and tidy :) I've tried allotments, but always got distracted. I've had a patch in my back garden since the spring that the pandemic started (less possibility of getting distracted when it's outside

Good old English countryside (even on the outskirts of MK!) There's so much greenery out there at the moment, there were times earlier in the year when I thought we were in for another long dry one, but

Grid-pattern cities feel like they should be harder to get lost in, but when I'm running, it's easy to lose track. Looks like a great trip. Have fun today!

Thanks Shani, very interested. I've got that weekend blocked out at the end of a family trip to the Essex coast, so can't confirm immediately, but it's definitely pencilled in. Thanks for keeping the tradition