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I planted and grew an onion, and harvested it (I think this is the word despite some misgivings based on the scale of this operation) a few days ago. It started out about 2-1/2 months ago as 2 stems and Continue reading Onion→

I’ve just watched a recording of this week’s BBC Question Time, a Thursday evening tv show that assembles a few people who can speak about whatever subjects the audience (both in the studio and having submitted questions beforehand) think are Continue reading Question Time→

It’s 1997, March the 23rd to be precise. A Sunday afternoon. I’ve not long returned from PC World in Stretford England, the closest store that I believed would stock everything I need. Everything I need: a US Robotics Sportster Flash Continue reading 1997-03-23 Internet→

💡 This is a test of publishing a public page from a private Notion, er… whatchamacallit. I’ve been using the Obsidian notes/’second brain’ app for a few months and like what I’ve found. I triaged then imported all the notes Continue reading Notion→

Prompted by the Free Talk Friday post in Reddit’s r/Browns on December 10 2022: My best ever gift was a shiny plastic space rocket with a shiny red nose. A pointy shiny red nose. I’m sure it wouldn’t be allowed Continue reading Best ever gift→

Frequently portrayed as a job most likely to be seen in the gaslit streets of the grim mill towns in the industrial north of England, but more likely a viable profession anywhere large numbers of people worked for large employers, Continue reading Knocker upper→

Some 8 years ago I asked the Internet for help finding a computing book I bought at the beginning of the nineteen eighties – over forty years ago. (I’m spelling those numbers longhand because it’s an age ago and that Continue reading Computer book acquired→