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Happy Birthday

Today would have been Andy’s birthday.

I don’t want to wallow in sadness because that’s not what Andy would have wanted. Instead I want to highlight a few things that he influenced. So today, if you find yourself thinking about Andy, think about these things:

Carol Jarvis’ solo album is on pre-order at Amazon and you can [...]

8/52 – At The End Of The Day

From 2010_52

Transitioning

You might be wondering why I’m writing a post about Electric Vehicles, popularly referred to as EVs, having just received my lastest diesel company car.

Joe Simpson has written a post over here about Renault’s advertising of its strategy to move towards affordable and usable electric cars in the next couple of years, and others have [...]

7/52 – Cold Weather

From 2010_52

We had another cold snap this week, with a couple of inches of snow falling in one afternoon. I took this from the car while sitting in a traffic jam, seemingly caused by rear-wheel drive German cars unable to complete a hill ascent.

...And Hello!

From Blog

And welcome to my new company car, a 2010 Vauxhall Insignia Elite.

I’ve never been a massive Vauxhall fan but changes to my company car scheme gave me the vast choice of errr… a Vauxhall. I could have chosen a Zafira but they were only available in low trim levels, so it was always going [...]

Goodbye...

From Blog

So, this is goodbye.

I’ve never possessed any car longer than this one, and for someone who gets bored with cars quite easily it’s been a surprisingly easy three years, three months, and three days.

This car was a last-minute choice. I was all set to order a Focus Estate when MrsG-T pointed out that a Mondeo [...]

More Music Please

When MrsG-T and I married and merged our CD collections we were surprised that of the (roughly) 350 CDs there were only four duplicates. As the years have passed, children and pets have been added, bills increase inexorably and responsibilities get greater, our CD collection has stayed fairly static.

Of course we’ve added bits and pieces, [...]

6/52 – Walking Home

From 2010_52

I’m enjoying the challenge of turning out at least one decent photograph each week, and this is one of my favourites from week 6 of 2010. I was in town one evening and saw this old couple hand-in-hand walking home with their shopping. It struck me how lovely it was to see them walking [...]

Altruism versus Hedonism

This morning Laurence Singlehurst taught at our local church.

The underlying point of his talk was that without integrity our society will collapse.

He pointed out that British society is generally very cynical about the people who rule over us, illustrated by the joke about telling that a politician is lying by observing their lips move.

This [...]

Sleep Cycle Problem

Many of you will know that I’ve recommended Sleep Cycle as a great alarm clock which also tracks your sleep patterns through the night.

However, I’ve come across a bug which stops displaying the tracking graphs sometime between 30 and 40 nights in. I tried various things (aircraft mode etc) but nothing has worked.

According to Lexware [...]