The Crivit® product range If you're looking for outdoors clothing or accessories, you could do worse than to browse the Crivit® range. Crivit® is a brand of German supermarket Lidl's, so it's most convenient for UK customers to head down ... (more)
Ethical Investments These investments are similarly known as Ecology Funds, Green Funds or Environmental Investments. These terms aren't identical, but generally share the same principle of investing for sustainability and social well-being ... (more)
Supermarket shoppers are becoming increasingly familiar with "brand match" coupons that they receive after paying for their shopping. These coupons may state that your basket of "brand" goods was cheaper than at competing supermarkets. Fantastic ... (more)
Lidl's (a discount supermarket) recently had in a batch of electric chainsaws, £45 each plus £10 for a spare chain. I went halves with a friend, and we spent a merry couple of hours chopping up various bits of knotty log and tree ... (more)
This is a guide to updating your Linux server for SSL-enabled, IPv6-happy email transmission using sendmail! Here are the things you need to have already: An IPv6 address for your server. Your internet hosting provider will be able ... (more)
Now that Coronavirus has swept across the globe, it's important to think about food security. We've had issues with supermarket shelves going bare of all those storable items (pasta, toilet roll, etc) but no real issues with fresh produce ... (more)
The Manor House A beautifully restored period building dating back to the end of the 19th century in a semi-rural setting on the edge of the village, which hosts a pub, a lovely church and post office. Double, twin or single rooms with ... (more)
Search engine optimisation has a lot of subjectiveness to it, and the large number of 'signals' that search engines employ to fine-tune their results makes it very hard to rationalise how some pages rank for certain terms - and others don't ... (more)
Ah, well, it's easy to answer, right? Boilerjuice, Butler, Bayford, Watson, or Scottish Fuels. Simple, eh? Or is it? Thanks to John Kelleher[1] who alerted us to the fact that many of the oil companies (that includes both domestic heating ... (more)
We had a situation recently where our Windows Media Center (running on Vista x64) would change channel and volume without our doing. Some nights it wouldn't do it at all, and other nights it was terrible. Eventually it dawned on us: we occasionally ... (more)
I was given a £25 NakedWines voucher today, in return for providing some feedback to Boilerjuice (a heating oil supplier). It stated that the voucher was valid for 30 days, but when I visited NakedWines.com from the voucher link, it told ... (more)