As the sun rises on a clear blue boxing day morning my body ponders what to do with the excess calories of yesterdays toughing. After so many years of the Bennee clan together with occasional grand-parental input we are now entering a new phase of the Christmas dynamic as the extended grouping of Bennee’s and …
I can’t quite believe the amount of hot air expended on the latest “revelation” that some Lib Dem MPs don’t quite like some Tories in government. It’s on a par with the “news” regarding Ursidae and woodland defecation. About the only news worthy piece from the Telegraph’s sting operation was the thing they tried to …
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When the weather outside is so cold the mains water supply is coming in close to freezing you certainly notice when the boiler stops heating your water. At first I thought it was just cutting out do to over-pressure in the heating system (having topped it up previously). However on closer inspection we were seeing …
It seems any severe weather brings on a large collective national moan. I don’t wish to minimise the hassle to people that have been affected by the weather and trapped in places they didn’t want to be however I think we are often too quick to criticise when things don’t quite work out how we …
I’m not entirely unsympathetic to the travails of modern students. I was one once myself and I was in part subsidised by the state for my education. Despite this I still walked out of university owing student loans, the bank and my parents money. However at some point you have to stop complaining about the …
Unless you have been living under a rock the last week you cannot have missed the latest wikileaks data dump. This iteration of leaks had lead to what could possibly be described as the Internets first Infowar. Aside from the predictable Denial of Service attacks there has also been political pressure on hosting providers and …
I spent a large part of the weekend at the Cambridge Treasure Trap end of term banquet. The format is a cross between a full weekend of club LARP and a day event with a Céilidh tacked on the end. Most of the Cambridge TT event are effectively day events held around some of the …