I have had a Lee Valley mug for over 30 years now, 3 trips across Canada, years in the States, this has been one of the best mugs I have ever had. With one minor issue… The handle is hot! I like my coffee hot and black (2 sugars, no
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Thoughts from what I have seen on this road I walk.
Recycling
From Browsers to Trousers
My ‘geek-life’ involves 2 laptops, a linux box and 3 very large monitors. Needless to say ‘focus’ is the keyword from 8:30am (usually anytime after 7am) til about 5pm (with the odd evening or overnight session). My work can get stressful at times, not the geekstuff as much as the
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Beachcombing
(From the unpublished recollections – ‘K444 – Growing Up In The Shadow of A Rusty Boat’) When you grow up so close to the sea that high tide in a storm means logs on the front lawn, beachcombing becomes a way of life long before the first bell rings for
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April 2026 in Carlington
If you live in this area you probably don’t need the stats to tell you April was a bit of a roller coaster month. One day the temperature was above 25C and the next morning -2C. One day sunny, the next snowy. Here is the data visualized from my backyard
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Trombones and Stinky Socks
Once a window widesheers fluttered in the breezelilted in flight by percussive lightnessflowing streamlike cross hardwood floorslike the footsteps of a wood nymph stealing awayawed by the majesty of Winstonplaying sunlit strings, deep tones rumbling pleasureat the crystal peals of Pachelbel. ml’01 (From the unpublished collection of short stories ‘K444-Growing
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Patch, Pitch or Paint?
A couple years back, at Xmas, my wife gifted me a VERY large set of coloured pencils – like 120 pencils! The pencils are lovely, smooth, no bits on the paper etc., the kind of thing you expect in expensive pencils. The only issue is what happens when I want