Updated from original of 26th April 2026 to use my own pic rather than the weird Gemini one… The red lines are in force beyond Devil’s Arse on both sides of the road, with some stretches open to allow paid parking by phone (the main car park still takes coins). Looks like action is finally […]
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It turns out that the “old people smell” is not (necessarily…) a result of poor hygiene, but is caused by 2-nonenal, an unsaturated aldehyde, which is produced when certain skin oils oxidise and break down. More details are available here and elsewhere. The chemical is also found in aged beer, apparently… (The featured image is
11th July 2025 Seriously scorchio today… Gone up to 32C here in Greno – which is 90F! Love sitting out soaking it all up in the back garden. But not today – I lasted 5 minutes… 13th August 2025 Today clocking in at 33C late afternoon – the highest I’ve ever seen on my watch.
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The last traces of Mermaid Tears in the whole universe were vaporised on Thursday 23rd July at 20:10. Bollox.
As I suspected (and feared…) V-Juice have discontinued producing Mermaid Tears. VapingWizard have been claiming they had 5 bottles left at 3mg nicotine for ages, and I was saving that as a last resort, even though I run at just 1.5mg. Yesterday I placed an order for all 5; order accepted, email confirmed, payment taken
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After a long call with R last night, it might be time to take stock… It’s not the pleasantest of things to face the reality of the toll that old age takes on us! In short, R has had to face a few big issues, whereas I have been beset with a thousand niggles. From
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Got back from our Switzaly trip, and fired up the PC. After a while, a constant stream of “+89” characters started being sent to all active windows, not surprisingly causing random havoc with all displays, such as zooming in all web tabs. putting a stream of +89 characters into search fields or open documents. And
As I’ve previously mentioned, we’ve had quite frequent sightings of a couple of buzzards circling about high over Greno. But this afternoon, we were treated to a flock of 6 flying north-south, circling a bit, then coming back south-north. Feel rather fortunate to have witnessed that! ‘flock’ is not really the correct collective noun. If
A few weeks back, Ecovapours announced a sale on lots of V-juice liquids, including Mermaid Tears, my single go-to liquid. Down from £13.99 to £9.99… great! Unfortunately, their stock amounted to a single bottle… Alarm bells started ringing: V-juice are a crap supplier to deal with, apparently, and was this signalling the end of the
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I was thinking, with all my flights, including several trips to east Asia and back, I might have done the equivalent of flyng to the moon… So I found a site that calculates standard flight distances between airports. I can remember most of the sectors involved, except for one bit of fuzziness regarding Hong Kong:
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