Category Archives: Friends

Apr
20
2012

Solar Panels

by Skippy

A long while ago I met up with Amy, and James from nbLuckyDuck, and one of the things that was intresting is that for a large part of the year they are off-grid with using a 136W flexable solar panel so very rarely run the generator. there has been discussion about other cost breakdowns here, and a lively chat [...]

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Apr
19
2012

Dundas Basin Elsan Point

by Skippy

The Elsan disposal point at Dundas Basin on the Kennet & Avon Canal was taken out of service back in November 2011 and has remained broken since; British Waterways plan to have a temporary elsan point operational some time in April, with full repairs coming on-line in August this year. BW say the cost of this temporary disposal point at Dundas while it [...]

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Apr
12
2012

Book 2: Fox Talbot

by Philip McGaw

John Hannavy’s ”Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Father of Modern Photography’, 1800 -1877″ Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His ‘calotype’ or ‘Talbotype’ process was the first working photographic process to use the now familiar format of negatives and positives. He was an ambitious man but [...]

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Mar
28
2012

A Month Sans Tea

by Skippy

As some of you know, I am going a month with out Tea, Coffee, or Chocolate. As I had given up my lovely Yorkshire Tea (for hard water), b0atg1rl started feeding me Pepper mint tea while I was at home. However at work I was still sans tea (either fake or real). Several trips to ASDA [...]

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Mar
16
2012

Striking a Cord

by Philip McGaw

I have been collecting some images for the screensaver of my work machine, I have come across these two, the first being: What do I fear? I fear stagnation and lack of progress. I fear never reaching my potential and being average. I fear being forgotten… The Past… Yesterday’s news. I fear giving up and being [...]

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Nov
23
2011

Under the knife.

by Skippy

After the falling off Steph part and my last visit to the doctors and the hospital. Yesterday I got to go again. This was my hand before in its fetching blue thumb splint: And this was my hands after coming out from being under, my left hand with the Peripheral cannula still in, and my right bandaged [...]

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Nov
17
2011

A visit to the Doctor

by Skippy

After yesterdays fun at A&E I went back for fracture clinic today; they cut my bandage off and gave me a splint, and an appointment for them to put a small pin in my thumb on Tuesday next week

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Nov
16
2011

Ouch; falling off Steph

by Skippy

Yesterday on my way to see B0atG1rl in Bath as I was travailing down the B4069 Following the road round a right hand bend I came face to face with a car travelling towards me in my lane, in trying to avoid hitting it i straightened up and managed to miss it; however I was [...]

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