As I get older and creakier… We all wake up one day and think “Whoa. When did I stop being twenty?” You notice hair where there didn’t used to be any, and no hair where there used to be some. Gray, where there used to be color. Skin is looser and has lines. There are […]

Blinkenlights… I sometimes feel like I’m sleeping under a Christmas tree.It seems every device we get these days, has some little LED status indicator.The on/off switch on an extension lead. The charging light on a charger. The on/off indicator on…well… pretty much anything you plug in these days.And that’s usually fine — until you turn […]

Think about the water you use. I’m in the process of buying a house.It sits on its own land, there is a well, a pond, woods and fields.We’re just coming out of a very hot summer, and the ground is bone dry. See the pond above? The water level should be a lot higher than […]