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Well I’ve never seen this before. I was visiting Godmersham Church recently. It’s a small village about half way between Ashford and Canterbury. Just to the left of the entrance to the church stands a tree which appears to have received a lightening strike. A ‘gouge’ runs from as far up as I can see…

When I was a lad, about 8 I reckon, I found a book in the school library at Bybrook Junior School. It was called ‘Danny Dunny Invisible Boy’ by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin. They were American novels written in the 50s – 70s about a boy who lived with his mother who was housekeeper…

After many years of looking, at last I have become a member of this inspiring group of people. I wear sunglasses a lot, I think my eyes have become more sensitive as I have aged. They have polarised lens and they bring out the edges and detail in the clouds like you wouldn’t believe. Sometimes…

As you may have seen elsewhere here, I am a Radio 4 / Radio 4 extra maniac. I am always wanting to keep programmes I have enjoyed and frequently search about for a piece of software that would let me download them. There are plenty out there but none really do the trick. Until today…

I bought one of those tiny little HD quality cameras from ebay some time back. There are lots of these on the market and they record to a micro SD card. I’ve long had a strange interest for aerial photography and it occurred to me that the small size and very low weight of this…

What is it with councils that they have to follow the line of ‘We must build more and more houses’? Where I live, the town has expanded relentlessly in the last thirty years. My trip to work takes more than twice as long as it did twenty years ago because of the sheer volume of…

Well I spent bloody ages, on several occasions too, looking for how to make my wireless doorbell push switch unit work with the chime part after changing the batteries! It seems they lose their pairing information instantly and so need to be paired in some way. I tried to guess the method, and as it…

This is Henz, or Henry to give him his full name. He was a stray and had lived in the area for a long time. I know this because he was the ‘ghost’ cat that constantly crept in and stole our previous moggy’s food. The first we usually knew of him was the sound of…

I love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9EBOOAYiU One day (ha ha) I will adapt my camera to take some tilt shift photographs. Amazing

Well, I am an utterly obsessed Radio 4 listener. I will not sit in a room without it on, will not carry out a task without it on. Those near and dear to me have just had to get used to the fact as it will never go away. I’m sure I’m not the only…