My Carfree Day – 2017
Yesterday it was World Carfree Day, so I donned my custom-made T-shirt and buried it and the rest of me beneath some waterproofs and set out on my bike for … Continue reading
World Peace Day 2017
Thursday 21st September Today is World Peace Day, or the International Day of Peace, as it is officially called by the UN, and so I got pondering once again about … Continue reading
Ebay: bogus Firefox update
Since ebay don’t provide an easy way to notify them of a problem page/advert, I’ll post my issue here instead. I was browsing some items on ebay when a small … Continue reading
World Carfree Day
Friday 22nd September It’s that time of year again, World Carfree Day; except, I sold my car last year and either cycle… or run (or sometimes walk) if I have … Continue reading
Be on your guard…
Story time in The Children’s Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee; just a short one from Volume 5, p.3495: A Brahmin had been to a town to buy a goat for … Continue reading
Banned Books
Reading through that next topic in The Children’s Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee, The First Astronomers, I read about Nicolaus Copernicus and how his famous book, known in English as On … Continue reading
From Interstellar to Poe
As per my previous post, I recently watched the film Interstellar. Turning today to my Penguin book of Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, instead of The Children’s Encyclopedia, I … Continue reading
