Well, perhaps not quite like that. My latest Ebay buy is a straight razor made by Ford & Medley of Sheffield long ago. It caught my eye because the price was very low despite the description that it was unused and in ‘as new’ condition. This seemed almost unbelievable for a razor about 100 years [...]
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With trembling hand I pressed the cut-throat razor to my skin.
Posted: 20th November 2011 by graham in Gadgets, My life0
Nature and structure of dependability arguments particularly but not exclusively in relation to interactive systems
Posted: 6th October 2011 by graham in Gadgets, My life, smileWhat 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
These are some of the things that I do not do on my Brompton bike
Posted: 23rd September 2011 by graham in Bicycle, My lifeMy Brompton is too precious to do this with it.
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 [...]
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 [...]