A rather different Christmas this year for me. Rather than wake up in my own bed in my own house as I have for many years, I upped and left for some winter sun on the Costa Blanca. Having been here for several days so far, I’ve been up the hills (waking paths seem almost …
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Barking and Dagenham, borough of culture?
Via The Dagenham Post and Diamond Geezer’s ‘blog I discover that Barking and Dagenham are competing for the role of London Borough of Culture. Alas, I missed any mention of this before the launch event, which DG has covered as part of his exploration of the borough’s historic features, else I’d have taken a day …
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Hackaday
An older project of mine from my other website has made it to Hackaday. Some interesting comments on the post there, but lots of people overplaying the dangers of mercury.
Halifax
Is mostly closed on Sundays. I’ve drunk a lot of Tea while waiting for the train back to London.
Big Ben Bongs its last
An advantage to knowing someone that works at Parliament is that you can get some behind the scenes tours that are not usually available to the public. Today, I got to visit the House of Lords archives and conservation studios. Today’s visit coincided with the last(-ish) chimes from Big Ben, the bell being taken out …