Dartmouth, right? It is indeed Whitby with palm trees. Although since it's much further south, the tourists all seem to be wearing various flavours of Musto rather than Tog24.
The car ferry is an Anderson knock-off and the pubs warrant more investigation. There was also a bicycle race. A sweaty man in lycra won.

M. John Harrison's Light is rocking my socks right now. I can only think that I waited so long to read it because I really failed to get on with The Centauri Device... Grab pile of books to take to the US, start with Glasshouse, ignore Smilla, oh this is going to be grim but there's nowt in the bog...Oh.How nice it is to be completely wrong ( Read more... )

As is usual post That Sort Of Thing, I feel like I've been stretched out and filled with hot sand. Dunno that the things-in-containers will have survived the first hot and dry week this year, which of course coincided with being in t'north, but there we are ( Read more... )

The demo code does talk to a PC. A small hurrah for not chucking out the homebrew gender-changer (RS232 only, sadly) and a length of serial cable liberated from HPL.

Does anyone else do the pliers-and-elastic-band trick as a seriously portable alternative to a bench vice?

There now follows a brief slideshow.

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An opportunity for bar-propping at the tail end of September: http://www.bristolcon.org/Read more... )

How much sashimi is too much?

I'm even less sure than usual that I know what day it is, so much of the following is probably just me making stuff up ( Read more... )

That was hard work. I can now add silver-bothering to the list of things I've had a crack at that haven't turned out entirely rubbish.

I'm sure the recipients will be startled. And then probably beetle straight down to Elizabeth Duke to have the objects melted down and swapped for something less interesting.

Photos much later.

Back from that there Londons, which had been rendered splendidly French for the occasion. It was very odd to be standing next to an 'Aquarel' banner and opposite a 'Champion' example while the Gendarmerie trundled past in (very flash) LHD Landies... While standing next to the Serpentine bridge ( Read more... )

I'd been a bit worried of late that I'd not been putting enough miles, and brightly telling people I was going to have a crack at the Dunwich Dynamo was my mouth writing cheques that my body would refuse to cash ( Read more... )