Archive for the ‘My life’ Category

What does this man do? I met a nice chap last week at a business meeting to do with the Christian Unions at the two local universities. I had not met him before so was particularly interested, after exchanging emails about something, to click a link at the foot of his email. The link took [...]

Review: Merkur Futur Razor

Posted: 27th September 2011 by graham in Gadgets, My life

Excellent! In future years will be looked back upon as a design classic. This is a class gadget. As I said in a previous post I do not shave with a toy razor (Gillette Fusion, etc) with ludicrously overpriced blades, I shave with a double edged safely razor. Recently I was able to get a [...]

Barefoot running without the bare feet

Posted: 24th September 2011 by graham in My life

I don’t think you need to run in bare feet to try some of the benefits of what is now being promoted as barefoot running. My last barefoot running post “Barefoot running – don’t!” got lots of hits and a few comments, most of which disagreed with me. But one comment got me thinking: “Looks [...]

My Brompton is too precious to do this with it.

1984 Seiko Pulsar Solar Watch V103

Posted: 18th September 2011 by graham in Gadgets, My life

Needing a new watch I happened to notice this one in the window of Bulmer’s, the second-hand shop in York that sells all sorts of treasures. I liked the look of the clear face and the low price of £20. I decided to take the chance and bought it. It was not until closer inspection [...]

Four Rump-less Araucana Chickens for £1 each

Posted: 9th September 2011 by graham in My life

Things I did on holiday. Back now to the usual routine. And after a good break, it is good to be back to normality.  Penny and I took our caravan to Norfolk, because neither of us had been there in many years We had a great time and here are some of the things we [...]

I will not ask you. Because I don’t want to know, but… Some people, when they’ve blown their nose, they open the hanky and look at it – study it! There is nothing special about that observation but… I was in the Laura Ashley shop. I had walked through with Penny, using it as a [...]