Fortitude – a lesson from the canal builders

At the weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to spend a few days on a narrow boat belonging to friends.  Despite the weather’s attempts to put a damper on things a great time […]

The universe – 15 mind boggling facts

I have a dictionary that I was given at Christmas when I was eleven and in my first year at secondary school.  On the blank opening page I wrote my name and address.  After the […]

Technology – my love/hate relationship with it

The inspiration for this blog comes from the fact that I’m going on holiday for a week and as a regular blogger I will be releasing, promoting and tracking my blog while I’m away (hopefully).  […]

Politics, the future and science fiction

In the UK right now we are in the middle of election fever, or I guess for most of us election overload, to the point where you feel like shouting, please can we just vote […]

Robots – will they make us lazy?

I suppose I could rephrase this with ‘robots (machines) are making us lazy.’  Machines have and are increasingly ensuring that, in the west at least, fewer and fewer of us have jobs/lives that entail hard, […]