From 8th Dec 2020 – The website crash of 2020 As recorded on the home page due to an unexpected problem in a WordPress update in late November the WordPress element of the site became unreliable with many posts and a significant number of the images being lost. Surprisingly, and in some ways annoyingly, the… Read More »
Another year another election So 2017 brings with it the unexpected situation of a general election despite our political leader saying there would be no election until 2020. What got me into blogging back in 2015 was the general election of that year and a Uni project blog on the GE of 2015. Sadly that… Read More »
Perspectives on our coastal towns. The English town of Weymouth is currently courting controversy as a result of a local photographer’s twitter post and his remarks of the shabby state of some areas. As a resident of the area I can concur with some of the views but this is a malaise of the British… Read More »
RBS and Brexit Why the simplicity on this important issue? Watching the recent news story coverage of RBS and Brexit I felt that most journalists got it wrong. In simplistically reporting this as a short-term item, they seriously missed the point. I voted remain and will do so again if we get a second chance… Read More »
Yorkshire floods and the Environment Agency I wrote another post about the Yorkshire flooding using storify. Sadly with the demise of that site it has been lost. (Updated Sept 2023) ———————————————————–
Southampton bombing raid 75th anniversary The 1st December 2015 was an odd day radio-wise. On the way in to Uni in the morning the local radio were reminiscing about the tragic loss of life and buildings in the worst Southampton bombing raid of World War Two. 75 years ago on the night of 30th November/… Read More »