Caterham highs and lymphoma lows
I’ve had a strange week. Last Friday started well enough. I went over to the Caterham dealer at Donnington Park and test drove a 270 SV. I was grinning like an idiot all the way around the route. It...
View ArticleMy favourite possessions: a cereal bowl and mug
I can be a grumpy so and so. I can be even grumpier than usual in the mornings. The phrase “not a morning person” could have been invented with me in mind. I get particularly grumpy if two of my...
View ArticleCaterham 7 ownership – 3 months in
Towards the end of August, I realised a long-held ambition of becoming a Caterham 7 owner. Six months earlier, I’d walked into the Bookatrack dealership at Donington Park, specified a yellow 270S...
View ArticleWallpaper stripping: messages from another century
A time capsule from 1999, found as I was stripping the wallpaper from my old room at my parent’s house. The discovery of these messages from 18 years ago affected me more than it probably should have...
View ArticleFather of the bride – my speech
Saturday 7th October was an amazing day. As is traditional, I delivered the fourth best speech of the day. Here’s (approximately) what I said. Marriages, like births, signal new beginnings. When Emily...
View ArticleBulb Energy: Impressive customer service
I had this email from Bulb Energy today. Impressive stuff – particularly as I’d rung off before the call had been answered. As it happened, I’d found the answer I needed on their website while…Continue...
View ArticlePersonal Brexit stockpiling
Are you stockpiling medicines, food or other items ahead of Brexit for personal use in the event of a catastrophe? Or do you have confidence in the government to make sure that life carries on…Continue...
View ArticleThe Death of Grass: Brexit preppers
I’m annoyed (*) to report that I’ve now felt driven to start my own no deal Brexit stockpile. I don’t trust the government, nor at least two-thirds of Derby’s MPs (one Conservative, one Labour,...
View ArticleRandom musings from Bracknell
I’ve been a regular visitor to Bracknell for twenty years. It’s the town in Berkshire whose 1960s centre was so unloved that it was recently demolished so that it could be rebuilt in 21st...
View ArticleBracknell musings 2: “as designed” vs “as used”
Just a picture this time. Sometimes “as designed” is very different from “as used”. The post Bracknell musings 2: “as designed” vs “as used” appeared first on ten pence piece.
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