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Yet another blog site. Annoyingly, I posted the stuff below to Facebook first. Post to blog first, excerpt to other people’s platforms second, please danny. Now what can I use for a featured image? Ah – this was in the eatery we went to this evening: (Ew, and change this horrible typeface). [[ After a few weeks on other things,...

I’m only now making a start at preparing the orto (veg plot) for planting. My neighbour Achille did his annual favour of digging it over with his little excavator a good few weeks ago. It would have been better if I could have started say 3 weeks sooner, but the weather has been almost continuously wet until yesterday. Suddenly, hot...

Short post to mention the ‘bad apple’ narrative around the police. Setting the scene : two very significant precursors of modern police were the cops employed by West Indies merchants on the Thames and slave patrols in Carolina. There’s a dichotomy within the police between their job as crime-preventors, protectors of the public, and their role as the domestic strong...

A few weeks ago I gave my girlfriend a Kinder Egg. She gave me back the (turtle!) toy container, suggesting I might have a might have a use for it. Of course I had: lucciola elettronica! Aside for having the Best Name Ever, the Joule Thief is a remarkable little circuit: [Pic from Wikipedia by Rowland, CC BY-SA 3.0] It’s...