Today is my wife’s birthday. She is at work right now, but we are planning to finally visit a restaurant with some friends tonight (we have talked about checking it out since Tom was last here, but not got around to it), another meal with her work friends and colleagues tomorrow, and then finally some [...]

Car Angel (and their sister project Boat Angel) operate a (not for profit, of course) scheme where you can donate cars or boats that you no longer need, and they will turn the resulting income over to a scheme where they make educational videos for children. So far they have given away nearly two and [...]

We have just finished watching one of those property redevelopment programmes on BBC prime, where two guys meet a family, and try to find their next ideal home. The premise is quite simple, and some weeks the episode tends to drag along, and others the ‘drama’ seems a little forced. It makes me wonder whether [...]

As you may remember, it was recently Losha’s birthday, his 18th in fact. Ira and I walked around a local shopping mall, looking for something to get him as a present. In the end, we went for a pair of Pierre Cardin cufflinks. We think they look quite classy, without being too showy off. (Is [...]

So, the transfer process from my old host to this new one (Bluehost) is complete, and I took the opportunity to basically build this blog up from the ground again. With the amount of plugins I tested over the last 18 months, there was an awful lot of clutter left in the SQL tables, and [...]

If you have spent any time at all playing cards online, you will already know just how over whelming the whole situation can become. With so many companies making offers in the hope of winning your allegiance, and with these offers often varying a great deal from each other, it really is a buyers market. [...]

I am way too tired to write a proper post right now, but this is just a short message to let people know that I have made some sizeable changes to this blog’s setup, and so if things look odd/don’t work in the next day or so, please do be patient.
Any old links to posts [...]

Could any of my readers in the Gloucestershire region leave a comment if they know whether the danger has now passed, in terms of flooding near them? As you may remember from last year, Rich (Alex’s brother) posted a video on YouTube of the flooding around Cheltenham. Although I obviously [...]

Until recently, I was not at all aware that Adidas golf equipment was available; I had of course come across their fitness sportswear, trainers and hold alls, but as I do not play golf myself (I do not think crazy golf counts ), I do not have a lot of experience with [...]