As I get older, my ability to manage without sufficient levels of daylight diminishes. So this brilliant little internet thing brings me great joy. The sunlight optimism calculator allows you to enter a postcode of your choice and then provides relevant evidence to confirm the days are now slowly getting longer. Bravo to Matthew Somerville [ ]
Latitude: 57° 54 10.308 N Longitude: 5° 33 31.758 W Mellon Udrigle A few weeks ago, Mrs Weir and I travelled North. A long way North. And living as we do near to a very handsome coastline, we decided to travel over 500 miles up country to replicate the experience we have at home, [ ]
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Over the last few weeks, my much-missed dad has been on my mind more than usual, which has been largely as a result of a number of less-than-typical happenings in the natural world. The first of these was the BBC’s weather app going somewhat haywire, seeing it predict hurricane-force winds of up to 16,543 knots [ ]
Although it appears that I don t own a single record by the Pet Shop Boys albeit I am more than happy to be considered a fan I was pleased to stumble across the recent Imagine documentary on them over on the BBC iPlayer, Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now Mr Lowe and Mr [ ]
Another addition to my increasing collection of television titles that might come in useful for future (albeit quite unlikely) PowerPoint presentations. Particularly presentations that follow the suggestions that Russell Davies makes in his excellent book, Everything I Know about Life I Learned from Powerpoint.
Earlier this week while I was sitting considering what to ignore next on my to-do list I stumbled across Forest, Field and Sky: Art out of Nature over on BBC4, a programme that you may have already seen given that it was originally broadcast on the 3rd May 2016. The programme saw art historian, Dr [ ]
Today marks sixteen years of doing this. Which also means that it marks sixteen years of not knowing what this is. I don t think there s a great deal to celebrate in respect of the efforts I ve made in the last year, but the fact that I m still here and able to do something, anything, is [ ]
It’s too bad nobody told you guys that everything here is bullshit. Helly Rigg Employee code 08-988 Mrs Weir starts a new job today having worked in the last one for over twenty-six years I hope her new employer understands how lucky they are. So here s to Mrs Weir, and to following [ ]