I expect you heard about the departing Google employee who, as an act of defiance/rationalism/blow for world peace (take your pick) deleted Donald Trump's Twitter account?  There is apparently talk of nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize ( Read more... )

Had my eyes tested last Monday, which was a Very Warm day.  Fortunately the Optician had air-con, in her room at least.  Phew ( Read more... )

Last week BiL was getting somewhat freaked on finding that the V&A Museum of Childhood thought various toys from his childhood museum worthy.  I, being a little older, am more accustomed to this ( Read more... )

H is a bit of a hoarder.  Ok, he's quite a lot of a hoarder.  I'm a bit of a hoarder.  Occasionally I throw things ( Read more... )

The TV is currently showing funny colours again.  H switched it off at the wall while we were away.  When we got back and switched it on the screen had three separate areas of geen, red and blue (the blue area being the full colour portion.)  Apparently it's called a 'purity error ( Read more... )

We have a variety of very oddly coloured moving pictures ( Read more... )

We knew it was going to be hot in central London yesterday, but we went anyway.  Lots of places, and buses, have air conditioning these days, I thought.  They may well do.  The places and buses we visited yesterday, for the most part, didn't ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how old our TV is.  I seem to remember we got it back in the day when flat screens were just coming in/out and were highly expensive (and the children were still living with us, that'll be at least ten years then).  So we got the CRT model.  It's lasted us well.  What hasn't lasted anywhere near so well is the 'remote'.  It became a ( Read more... )

There was Castles in the Sky, an almost factual account of the invention and development of Radar by Robert Watson-Watt (played by Eddie Izzard), and assorted Met Office Geeks.  That contained quite a few interesting bits of knitwear - mainly Fair Isle pullovers (aka Tank Tops) which were popular in the Thirties.  I tried matching the greenery to ( Read more... )

You know you're old when collections of things appear and you remember the first - like the new BBC Children's programme stamps, out yesterday.  I remember Andy Pandy from when I was a small child - not with much affection, they were all a bit wet.  I far preferred Ivor the Engine, Mr Benn, The Wombles, Bagpuss, Paddington Bear, Postman Pat (first ( Read more... )