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I can hardly believe it - my baby daughter is engaged!

Here's another book I enjoyed reading - A prayer for Owen Meany  by John Irving. I guess I enjoyed it because I could identify wit...

I can hardly believe it - my baby daughter is coming home - all the way from the land of  Oz !

Suggested local user-interface for Turboburn Monitor Plus With hindsight and a bit of experience behind us, here's my proposed sp...

Oh - and I forgot say - it is undesirable for the water to boil because the steam causes condensation which wets the insulation, and excessi...

Our TB4 snug inside its shed "in the bleak mid-winter" This picture was taken just after stoking. Once the fire has got up t...

One's literacy tastes mature with age, they say, but there are several books that make the same impact when I read them now as the...

Turboburn heat exchange coils Living as I do in a Christian community our "home" is large. Its ancient construction makes i...

Naas to home 10.6 miles according to google.maps in 110 minutes, barefoot - felt more like 20

When I was very young my mother told me to clean some part of my shoe, the heel maybe. I asked her what she meant. She said I knew very well...

Long, long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land, before even the internet and google, in fact in 1993, I commissioned a genius called MDG...

Sugar and spice and all things nice? You can purchase an ink-jet printer for less than 40 euro, including inks. This one was being thro...

I have just finished reading this book. Apart from my usual difficulty in following any plot, especially when the time-line is convolute...

I have found the book I referred to in a post  some while ago - " 1000 things for boys to do"  or at least something like it...

When I have taught piano I have encouraged the pupil to caress the keyboard, to enjoy the feel of and explore the keys, to be able to find m...

Here's  a new idea that resonates with  Jane . If it works we could end up with robots that develop amazing skills overnight. Both amazi...

Probably everyone knows about the  watchmaker analogy . Having been brought up by fairly conservative evangelical parents and in a very cons...

Bruckner was infatuated with Wagner's operatic music although it is thought that he would neither have understood nor cared about the pl...

I have been revisiting assembler code I wrote maybe 10 years ago because of a software bug.  The device announces the problem by displaying ...

My Christmas morning walk to the lake, shod, with Meg, having figured my back would not let me run... Frosty fields Lake shore ...