The Swindells Name We've been doing a bit of research into our family trees, and are sharing our findings. Here is what we have discovered about the Swindells family name. (more)
The Brainard Family Name Links: Cecilia Brainard on Wikipedia, and her profile on PAHLBooks.com (Philippine American Literary House). (more)
Driving To The Gym This section is dedicated to oxymorons such as Driving to the Gym. Do you ever wonder why people drive to the gym? I do. I know there are some folks who aren't very mobile and need finely tuned exercise that a gym or ... (more)
Think Environmental: The Green Options Install a wind turbine? Do more recycling? Walk everywhere? Fly less? What's best? It'd be hard to come up with a complete and 100% accurate ranking of the value of each possible action. ... (more)
Transferring money from the US to the UK (more)
I took these pictures because of the enormous contrast between the dark clouds and the bright morning sunshine. The deep green of the trees and bushes is also quite appealing! (more)
Nero got cross with his big brother Claudius, for no apparent reason, and backed him into a dark corner! (more)
In what seems to be an ironic twist of fate for that environment bad-boy, oil, the next big thing in solar cell production may depend on oil itself. Two US-based research teams - at Florida and at Texas - are applying plastic technologies ... (more)
I bought a second-hand Garmin Edge 1000 recently, as a Christmas present, and it's a nice device with a handy big screen. It quickly transpired though that the map screen was missing all the minor roads (UK's B roads and smaller), which made ... (more)
The oil buying public have been calling for it, politicians have been discussing it, and finally the Secretary of State for Energy requested it: The Office of Fair Trading is to examine energy supply to off-grid customers. A study like this ... (more)