…the audio tracks to make the short versions for the podcast I thought… that’s odd. There seem to be…rather a lot of them. Given that I need to record a vinyl track and a gramophone… I’ve already recorded the speech segments, because it was easier to do it that way around this time (what happened…

So, it is, officially spring. And I think what we’re doing can be correctly classified as ‘spring cleaning’. The builders are not-yet-finished, but nearly (some light sanding of the bedroom ceiling, and another coat of paint, and a few small jobs kicking around the place) so we’ve commenced the massive task of removing the layer…

So, posts have been a bit scarce of late, lots of stress, lots of busyness, not much time for work. The house is covered in a fine film of white dust, as builders have been variously: – Putting in missing joist hangers, that the lousy last builders failed to put in. The old builders claimed…

So, another week of nights is over; I’m less sleep deprived than normal because I had another allergy shot today and felt that attempting to get into central London and get jabbed with needles with no sleep at all – at a time of day when I’m already normally feeling nauseous would be attrociously foolish.…

Today, just before I headed home it poured with rain. Bucketloads of it tipped from the sky drenching the world and its inhabitants. I made distressed noises and whined. I was informed that ‘this is why I drive a car’. My comments about the bike being really rather wonderful in the dry fell on deaf…

I finally finished the first episode of the podcast. Be gentle, I know the levels are a bit up and down, but audacity and I are only slowly becoming friends, and let’s be fair, the ‘studio’ or ‘lounge’ isn’t the ideal place to record it, as I tend to change my distance from the mic…

So I finally got around to filing the claim against the company who ‘restored’ my car the first time. It’s actually not for anywhere near as much as I thought because I looked at the bill and realised that a big chunk of their bill was for ‘mechanical’ and ‘interior’ works. Indeed, that should perhaps…

For those of you who aren’t yet in the world of XKCD (Particularly Chrissy)

So, being a classic car owner, and occasionally driver, I’ve spent a fair bit of time lurking and chatting on classic car forums, and one thing that gets me is that – as a broad sweeping generalisation – classic car owners seem to be very much in the climate change denialist camp. Any suggestion that…

Did not know that such a thing existed to intense desire for ownership in 0 seconds flat. MONOCHRON – open source retro clock from adafruit industries on Vimeo. Monochron.