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The Days When The River Tay Used To Freeze Over
I’m only in my early thirties but already within my lifetime I’ve seen marked changes in the climate. I grew up in a little village called Wormit (and then latterly in a slightly bigger village next...
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Life On Mars (Better Late Than Never)
Typically for me I missed the hype of the BBC series Life On Mars a few years back but managed to acquire the first series on DVD last Christmas (that’s not the Christmas just passed, it’s the one a...
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Ten Observations That Tell Me I’m Not As Young As I Used To Be
Just a few short years ago I never thought I’d be saying things like these: I was on a night out talking to a couple of girls, one 18 and the other 21. Instead of chatting them up and trying to get...
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10 Years In Yorkshire
I moved down to Yorkshire from Scotland in June 1999 on a very sunny day. All I had was myself, a red Mk2 Golf GTi full of my worldly possessions, a new job as a software developer just outside the...
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The Cheesecake Comes Full Circle
When my brother and I were youngsters my parents would often organise dinner parties. My memories of these dinner parties start with my mother cooking lots of lovely looking food, which we weren’t...
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Why I Stare At The Sky
I remember being a small boy looking up at the night sky in a state of awe. Awe at what I was looking at knowing what I was actually seeing. I was one of these geeky kids – quiet, thoughtful,...
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Tsunami
When I was a young lad I had an insatiable thirst for knowledge (actually I still do, but more so back then). I read books on everything I could get my hands on – from insects to spiders to atlases to...
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Ten Years Of Incoherent Ramblings (Blogging)
Slightly over ten years ago I came up with an idea. I’d left University and moved from Scotland down to Yorkshire and was struggling to effectively keep in touch with friends and family. While sending...
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The Perils And Pleasures Of An Inquisitive Mind
If you follow the tech news you’ll often come across stories of “hackers” that have broken into secure military systems, stolen user’s login details to social networking site, extracted lists of credit...
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The Apollo Moon Missions and Me
I grew up in an era full of hope for space exploration. I was born in 1974 – 5 years after the first moon landing and 2 years after the last. My earliest TV memories are of a couple of astronauts...
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