Finding the chase and cutting to it

I broke my arm three weeks ago, you already know that. I’m not saying it’s been easy, in fact of the first two weeks, I was in quite a bit of pain. It’s not uncommon for a distal radial fracture to become dislocated and that happened to me.  So, the bone was fixed in place […]

I woke up on Saturday, 18 April, really looking forward to the day.  Orwell’s was having an open day and after that I was looking forward to going solo ride before meeting up with my family.  My son was going to his friends party and I was looking forward to hearing all about it. The […]

Webwise, I have a terrible name. No part is unusual: Watkins is 131st in the list of UK surnames) and Sam is often a shortening of many forenames. So basically, webwise, it’s a waste of space. But there are worse things than a common combination. Sam Watkins was a soldier in the Confederate army and […]

I’ve been working on my presence the past few weeks.  I did a presentation in the University of Nottingham which went down reasonably.  Which is good, it was my first one for AGES outside of my company. I’ve one coming up at the end of April too.  I feel reasonably relaxed about these at the […]

The new Honda Insight is a clever hybrid offering low tax costs and high fuel efficiency and lower emissions. And I’m really disappointed.  It’s a pretty car, enough room for four people and the same tax band as a 125cc motorbike (that’s £15 to you and me) but to be honest I can’t see me […]

For me, the decision is usually made by answering a simple question: What benefit do I get if I upgrade? I am not actually that good at answering what harm may the upgrade do. The only time I have been badly caught out by this is with my own personal wiki. I used mediaWiki as […]

WH Auden called the postwar times the age of anxiety but I am wondering in we’re living in a time of downright fear. The news has been talking of impeding recession (as an asside, I love the facebook group,  ” I absolutely refuse to participate in a recession“) and as a result, shock, horror, gasp, […]

I live in the UK.  Climate wise, it’s OK, we get to grow most crops and the winters are not too severe and the summers are not at all monotonous! Snow storms do bring this country to its knees though.  Major routes are focused on as they are a lot easier to manage but that […]

We expect our roads to be bad during snow fall.  England is a temperate country and it’s not very easy to provision enough snow gear during spells of bad weather. Schools and offices often close and this really does help to protect life. So why do the schools web-sites say “Service unavailable” and “Server too […]

I always felt a little sorry for Ron Livingston as Jack Berger telling Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) during an episode of Sex and the City that the man she was waiting for a call from just wasn’t that into her. As someone who’s been married nearly 10 years (crikey) it seems like a blatantly obvious […]