The Palace of Westminster
I’ve known for a while now that it is possible to go round the inside of the Houses of Parliament either by paying (at the weekends) or for free by writing to your local MP. So after years of slagging him off I swallowed my pride and sucked up to John Redwood to get a …
STAMPING OUT THE POST OFFICE
It has been announced this week that the price of a first class stamp is to rise by 30% and a second class stamp by a whopping 39%. The reason that the rises are necessary is because of increased competition not only from others taking away delivery of physical items but by electronic means of …
TOP FIVE ALBUMS
So I thought I would do a list of my top five albums. These are the albums that I would happily sit through and listen to time and time again without skipping any track and, more than likely, I would sing raucously along to! 1. Strange Kind of Love – Love & Money 2. Selling …
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IPHONOGRAPHY
I have been really enjoying the fact that my iPhone 4S allows me to take really good quality pictures anywhere. Having it means that I am able to always have a camera with me and allows me to capture things that I wouldn’t have previously been able to. No doubt you will have seen an …
A NEW START
It’s been quite a few years since I last attempted to “do” my family history, close to 20 in fact. In that time an awful lot has changed both in my life and in the wider context of family history research. Over the intervening years I have seen my children grow-up and either left home …