Dean Allen uses a cool technique for his daily photos of his dog, Oliver. He uses CSS to place the image of the dog perfectly in the middle of your browser window. This is achieved by making the image a background image. This is great as the minimal design always looks really good on screen. [...]

In a new activity on BBC news entitled Find the bug you can try to find all the bugs in a virtual hotel room. Apparently bugs are all over the place in UK hotels!

I decided to take the driver’s front wheel off my Clio last night in order to assess the wheel bearing problem myself before delivering the car to the garage. To my relief, I discovered that the noise was being caused by a small stone caught in the brake shoe. I swiftly dislodged the offending item [...]

There’s a raaat in ma’ kitchen, what am I gonna do? There’s a raaat in ma’ kitchen, what am I gonna do? There’s a raaat in ma’ kitchen, what am I gonna do? There’s a raaat in ma’ kitchen, what am I gonna do?

Helen and I met up with various members of my family for a ‘picnic’ this Saturday. The venue of choice was Farley Mount, near Romsey, Hampshire. Known amongst the locals as the place that a horse rolled down a chalk pit and died survived. It’s now immortalised by having a chalk design of a horse [...]

Weekend family visit to the mythical Farley Mount are available now.

Tracy sent me a link to this weird bendy man. Rather odd but fun to play with.

I’ve been spending the last two days with my mum and bro’. They came up to see the Carberry castle for the first time since we moved in April. We got off to a bumpy start, having to take Hugh to an emergency doctor on Monday night as he was complaining of stomach pains. He [...]

The album that Jeffrey Zeldman is refering to in this article I believe to be Ummagumma. However, they are not holding a picture - it’s on the wall and if you look closely the band lineup arrangement changes from mirror to mirror. I love this album cover!

Graham Norton unearthed a website of ‘erotic’ vegetables last week. As usual, he neglected to give away the URL. I have found it and it is just as amusing as it was on his show. Feast your eyes on these tasty morsels.