I always like to read at night, even if only for a page or two, before settling down to get to sleep. This remains true even on the rare occasions that I retire very late. It just seems to help…

Even a minor amount of snow seems to manage to cause relative havoc in England. It came as no surprise, then, that the 8 inches of pretty, fluffy white stuff that fell on the capital today should cause some serious…

Having begun the week thinking that it was finally time to bite the bullet and upgrade my computer, things went a little awry when first Carol and then I lashed out on two new road bikes. Bang went twice the…

We’d been wondering about getting the train into London today to see the Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum. The day dawned very grey-looking and, although the weather forecast was advertising bright spells in the afternoon, it didn’t really…

Soon after my recent grovellings around on the floor and messing around with what seemed like 223 cables behind several back-to-wall cabinets to commission our new TV (Telly Tales), something odd happened. Whilst skipping through the TV’s various inputs and…

For some reason recently, my poor old Sony Vaio desktop PC is beginning to struggle. I’ve been getting relatively frequent messages telling me my Windows swap file is too small, for one thing. It’s also taking quite a while to…

Just after the turn of the Millennium, we ditched our faithful old Sony 19″ 4:3 TV in favour of one of those newfangled wide-screen, 16:9 TVs. This, despite the mixed format broadcasting that was prevalent at the time. Still, hopefully…