Post Index
Title | Location | Comment |
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The Duck House | Crymych | Building a Duck House half way up a Preseli mountain |
The Farm - First Visit | Crymych | My aunt's and cousin's farm half way up a Preseli mountain |
Bodiam Castle | East Sussex | Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. |
Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber | Crymych | Pentre Ifan is a megalithic monument in Wales. |
Foyles Bookshop | London | When I was working in London in the late 60s early 70s it was only a five minute walk to a number of bookshops in the area. In my lunch break my main target was Foyles on the Charing Cross Road. |
Bateman's | East Sussex | The house where Rudyard Kipling lived from 1902 to his death in 1936. |
Eating Out Antidotes | London | Here a collection of food related stories from my time in London in the late 60s, early 70s. |
An Unscheduled Visit | Broxbourne | A Funeral and a Birthday |
A Matter of Forgetfulness | Leverkusen | A touch of TGA (Transient Global Amnesia). |
In the shadow of the Zugsplitz | Ehrwald | A holiday and visiting family in Austria. |
KAPing | Egmond aan Zee | My first and only picture in the category Kite Aerial Photography - KAP. |
A shot at Snooker | Hever Castle | And the frustration it turned out to be. |
Aerial Pastimes No. 34 'The Lunch box' |
Copenhagen | Trying to eat a meal on a flight to Copenhagen. |
Pubic Speaking | Amsterdam | The trepidation of having to give a talk in English. |
Checkpoint Charlie | Berlin | The incident of trying to enter the Eastern Bloc. and get out again. |
By Cycle Gymnastics | Bergisch Gladbach | How to somersault on a bike without practicing beforehand. |
English Lessions | Canterbury | Back to School. |
Celtic Art: Book of Kells - Letters | Leverkusen | Celtic Ornamental Lettering. |
Christmas Markets | Cologne | A walkaround Cologne at Christmas time. |
Pathology Basement I | Cologne | A spooky tale before lunch. |
Pathology Basement II | Cologne | A spooky tale after lunch. |
Consolation Bear | Leverkusen | My knitted bear usually for children in hospital. |
Constructing Go-Carts and other Toys |
Bergisch Gladbach | At last the chance to have a Go-Cart, in this case five of them! |
Crossing the English Channel | Calais | An adventure of parking underdeck. |
DMSO | Cologne | How to stop someone getting into work with a sink bomb. |
Diverticulosis | Leverkusen | How not to treat one's digestive system |
On the road again | Europe | My relutance to learn to drive among other things. |
Dual Citizenship / Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft |
Leverkusen | Finially seeing double due to Brexit. |
The Cheese Market | Alkmaar | Watching grown men running around with funny hats and lumps of cheese. |
Gone Fishin | London | My first and definitely last fishing trip on the River Lea. |
Elizabethan Shower | Hawkhurst-Kent | A wet fight with an ancient shower. |
Bed and Breakfast | Hever Castle | Sitting around with the ghosts of Conan Doyle and Evelyn Waugh. |
One day coach trip | Holland | A wish of my mother that we relutantly agreed to. |
Feeding the Birds and Mice | Leverkusen | Unwanted guests at the bird table. |
Paperwork | Broxbourne | Hawkers gaulore |
Ratty and the Bird Bath | Leverkusen | Rodent acrobatics at mealtime. |
Raclette - The DIY meal | Leverkusen | As we were going to have our friend IW over for Christmas dinner we decided after many years to have Raclette instead of the traditional stuffed turkey. Or so we thought.. |
Rockets in the Roof | Leverkusen | Aerial hazards on New Years Eve. |
How to lose ones cuddley toys | Rainham | and smile all the time while doing it. |
H.P. Lovecraft's IKEA | Leverkusen | I just could not resist to ask ChatGPT for a horror story in the style of H.P. Lovecraft with the monsters named after IKEA furniture. |
EDC Trip 1 of 5:Budapest | Hungary | In 1999 I had a project for a clinical study at two sites in Hungary using the companies EDC software. We are talking about the time when it was 'intranet' direct dial-in. It was just a point-to-point Euro-ISDN connection between the German Telecomm and the Hungarian Matav. |
EDC Trip 2 of 5: Szombathely | Hungary | I collected the computers from the CRO in Budapest and I was off west, direction Szombathely which was almost back to Vienna. The two sites I was setting up were Father and Son. Professor ‘I.’ was my next stop and his son Doctor ‘I.’ was in Pecs down south. |
EDC Trip 3 of 5: Pécs | Hungary | I found the clinic; it was in downtown Pécs. I was a little astonished at the condition of the building and the facilities. The place needed a complete renovation and was very run down. ‘Doctor I’ was waiting for me. |
EDC Trip 4 of 5: Cologne-Pécs and back | Hungary | I received a call from Pécs, and was imformed that they had a break in a water pipe on the floor above the room where I had set up the computer. The water had ‘rained down’ on said computer with the consequence that the monitor had gone ‘buff’. |
EDC Trip 5 of 5: Round Trip | Hungary | The study was over and it was time to do the rounds and collect the computers. As H had school holidays and I had no idea if I’ll get the opportunity to go to Hungary again, we decided to go together. |
Jigsaw Puzzles | Rainham | A puzzle of what to do with my mothers puzzles. |
An eye full of Kaleidoscopic Lights | Leverkusen | While starring at the computer screen a small ring with a band of psychedelic pulsating and shimmering triangles appeared off center in my right and only funtioning eye. |
EuroTunnel | Calais-Dover | An adventure crossing under the Channel. |
Leaving Work | Cologne | Last day at work and locking up. |
Breakfast Tea | London | Stocking up on tea before leaving London. |
House Keeping | Broxbourne | Clearing out a house in a 'foreign' country. |
The Falling Cyclist | London | A path. lab. story. |
The Visiting Patient | London | Another path. lab. story. |
The Working Hangover | London | And another path. lab. story. |
Waiting for my flight | London | Observations in a heathrow waiting lounge. |
Mice hand reared en masse | Cologne | How to handle mice correctly without concequences. |
Casino Capers | Monte Carlo | An observation at the Casino and a nightly walk on the F1 race track. |
Mr. P and the Appointment | Leverkusen | Being at the right place at the right time. |
My old Piano | Leverkusen | Deconstructing a Joanna. |
Nice Flight and Back | Nice | Getting a lift on a white private 737. |
Montmartre | Paris | A walk around after a business trip. |
Concert and Graveyard | Shepton Mallet | Trying to find aplace to sleep with consequences. |
Six Feet Under | Bergisch-Gladbach | Riding a bicycle through a graveyard with consequences. |
The Dock of the Old Bailey | London | Being in the legal limelight for five minutes. |
The Sheld and the Chemistry Lession | Rainham | How nosiness can be dangerous and get ones father told off from ones mother. |
Things happen in Threes | Saarland | The title says every'thing'.. |
TimeTable Troubles | Stansted | An adventure of cancelled trains and crowded buses. |
The Boat-Train: Act 1 of 4 | Cologne-London | The begin of a journey with curious circumstances and consequences. |
The Boat-Train: Act 2 of 4 | Cologne-London | The continuing journey with curious circumstances and consequences. |
The Boat-Train: Act 3 of 4 | Cologne-London | The continuation of the journey with curious circumstances and consequences. |
The Boat-Train: Act 4 of 4 | Cologne-London | The end of a journey with curious circumstances and consequences. |
The VCS3 Synthesiser | London | Wanting to buy a synth and ended up building one. |
Viruses in Copenhagen | Copenhagen | The title says everything.. |
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