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What's new

7 June - start of major revisions to site to more readily incorporate blog and gallery.

20 March - Blog now established on site, to enable easy publication of my increasingly random thoughts

14 March - Spring not far away now - the first decent bit of weather we have had for months, and the start of the F1 season!

7 March - Splendid meal celebrating Mum's 80th at Howfield Manor. Also some photos added to the gallery

7 February - Back on line after an enforced break following latest (and last) planned improvements at Wiseworld Towers.
Tons of work and catch up to keep me out of mischief, so bear with me!

On this day

1988 British customs officers intercepted a helicopter landing on its way in from Holland. It was the first helicopter known to have been used in an attempt to smuggle drugs into Britainorge Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a US patent ...
1860 The first weather forecast appeared in The Times
1901 Birthday – William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars)
1909 The first Boy Scout rally was held at Crystal Palace, near London
1893 Beatrix Potter introduced Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail in an illustrated note to her governess’s five-year-old son, Noel Moore
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Affairs of the Night

When I was 14, I knew I was well on the way to manhood when firstly I could sharpen a pencil with a penknife (rather than a pencil sharpener), and secondly I was told I had snored the previous night!

Since that day, snoring and I have made good bed fellows, until my wife decided to threaten an hitherto close relationship.
Ms Snoring and I had enjoyed regular all night sessions, especially after a beer or two.

Dearest Mrs Wiseworld had long held suspicions about our relationship, but last night, armed with new surveillance equipment, she finally caught us in the act.
Click on the player if you want to listen to the damning evidence.

Things could have been far worse.
She could have caught me with Miss Windworthy, with whom I enjoy a good curry and a noisy night.