A few days ago I bought myself a cast iron casserole dish from Aldi, great value at less than £17, I was keen to try it out and had 3...

It is that time of year when I normally don't make 'resolutions'. In fairness, I'm knocking on a bit in years and am pretty much the...

I've been working from home most of the time for the last few years with only occasional office visits (typically once a fortnight). The...

I use Apple Airtags to keep track of several higher-value things and have done so for over a year, recently they have started to report...

Shopping by bike or bus is great most of the time but a few things are more problematic due to either size or weight. My answer? once...

A couple of days ago I needed to visit Penrith for a meeting, by road this would take about an hour. By train, well it is on the main...

As mentioned the other day, I’d bought myself a secondhand ‘spares or repair’ ebike on eBay, an NCM Venice Plus. The weekend arrived and...

It is a pretty silly name for a start. Until today, I'd never knowingly eaten couscous. A few months ago I was in Aldi and spotted...

I like to get a hot pie from the corner shop on a Friday, they are good. Unfortunately I got caught up in a work meeting and by the time...

Computer games are something I have only ever dabbled briefly with, I've nothing against them but just haven't gone there to date as...

I'd almost managed to go through 2023 without buying another ebike, this would be a record since I adopted them as my preferred mode of...

On the 16th of October I lost it with Facebook again, another post rejected for no obvious reason (it really was not that bad, honestly)....

My teeth are in a bad state. In fact, my last dentist told be they were in palliative care just before he retired and there has been no...

Another winter is almost upon us. I received an invite for a Covid & Flu booster and, not being one to miss out on anything free, it was...

I had one of my occasional pub trips the other day and got talking to one of my friends who has done a bit of travelling recently. I...

The latest thing I have tried sprouting in my sprouting jar is chickpeas, just 'normal' dried ones from Tesco costing around £1 for 500g....

My recent experiment growing microgreens from things found in the back of my kitchen cupboard was a success. On the back of this, I went...

AliExpress offer full refunds if there are problems with deliveries, but how good is this in reality? AliExpress parcels have quite a...

A strange question but, in this case, it was much cheaper. A few days ago, I wanted a few circle hooks to tie a couple of fishing rigs...

Queen 16, a lasius niger, was captured by me on 7th July after her nuptial flight. She is the first of my captured queens to get as far...