So, the SNP want independence: Let ’em go, says I. The Jocks think that they’ll be better off if they’re independent, but maybe they should think it through… Salmond is relying on the money he’d get from the tariffs on gas from the North Sea and via the pipes… Continue reading
So, Autumn is here – or, to be more precise, has come and largely gone. Trees are mainly bare of leaves as the Government is mainly bare of ideas. Instead, they stir the same old bullsh*t round the same old pot and try to convince us that something has changed. … Continue reading
H’mm. Last post in May. So the resolutions didn’t work… Trouble is, life gets in the way of blogging. Work, home, family, on-line games… it’s just too much… So, you techies out there, time for some inventiveness. I need an avatar. Or several. Best would be if I could send… Continue reading
It’s May and the garden is going berserk. A month ago it looked like a ploughed field, now everything’s vanished behind a burgeoning wall of green. Unfortunately, much of the green is ‘feral’, so I’ve got to put on the gardening gloves and get weeding. It’s been so warm (and… Continue reading
R.I.P Jo… So, here we are, well into 2011, and the main local news is that journalists are beating up the police investigating the murder of Jo Yeates because it’s now THREE WEEKS since she disappeared (and at least two since she was murdered) and they haven’t charged anyone yet…. Continue reading
So we went to see the RA summer exhibition. Once again, the best bits were the ‘public’ submissions. I may be a bit intolerant, but I think that most of the Academician’s own submissions were self-indulgent claptrap. Of course, there were a few good ones, but I really do think… Continue reading
NASA have announced that the last shuttle flight will be in December 2010, although there are reports that it will slip to January 2011. Then what? The shuttle replacement (which was, effectively, a glorified Apollo capsule) has been binned and there are no plans to provide an alternative. I think… Continue reading
So, after several weeks, we got the word that the CR-V was fixed. It was going to cost us a smidge under £1K. Eek! Drove up to Colchester in the ‘2nd car’ and collected CR-V. All seemed well. Off to the Smoke for a weekend at Brett’s workshop. Back to… Continue reading
There’s a story circulating that Toyota’s unexpected acceleration problems may be caused by cosmic rays. Seems like BS to me: Cosmic rays cause random problems with computers. It would be extremely odd if any significant number of these caused a car to accelerate uncontrollably. For this to happen, the hardware… Continue reading
Well, it’s been a hell of a week! Problems started last Friday, when we arrived at Mo’s mum for a long weekend. A warning light came on on our Honda CR-V: ‘engine fault’. Great. Limped to Inchcapes in Colchester who diagnosed a faulty Glow Plug control unit/relay. None in stock. … Continue reading