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Big Bikes for Big Boys

Tolii earned himself a real bike. He had been riding a bike covered in cartoon characters, and which wasn’t made for use on the new BMX track in town.
My good friend in town, John (of Hampshire Cycle Training), recommended North Hants Bikes as a place to shop for bikes.  Its just a tad north [...]

Camping With Coops for His 40th

Long gone are the days of “back-pack camping”, when you go camping with whatever you could carry on your back – away from civilisation, miles from the nearest road, deep in the Siberian forests or the North-West Territories.
Things were simple those days: a tent, box of matches, two saucepans, spoon, knife, aluminum mug, sleeping bag [...]

Our most popular post is 1 year old today

There is one post on this website that gets read more than any other, and it was one year ago today that I put it up – how to clean an HP Color Laserjet 2605 printer.  It became so popular that I promoted it to its own page, so that it could be found more [...]

Its Physics, Jim!

Ah how I love Star Trekkin’ by The Firm – Its a catchy tune from the late 80s with this line from Scotty, the chief engineer: “You cannot change the laws of physics.”. And then later, “Its physics, Jim!”
Many, many years ago, I was a student at the OSCSS and just loved the physics [...]

Tolii’s Tough Questions

Driving around Winchester after swimming elicited a few tough questions, which I note here in order to find out their answer!

Why did “they” choose red to mean stop on traffic lights? When? What about the other colours?

From the Color + Design Blog (USA, with spelling and grammar corrected by me):
Red became a colour connected with [...]