For all those who think the internet it a bad thing I give you penciltalk.org. A whole corner of the web for pencil lovers. You would never have thought there was so much to do with the humble pencil, but there you go. Thanks to the internet, it doesn't matter what your passion, is, or…

There's a few very good books, the odd telly program (like this) but nothing that grips you in the visceral way it should. There's nothing more amazing, weird and jaw dropping than science when it's presented right. For example, everything you see is mostly empty space, if you removed the empty space in every single…

Being a Yorkshireman it can be uneasy reconciling working in Manchester, we're a little past the War of the Roses, but there is always that sliver of tension. If you live down South, you might not understand –  it's just 'Oop North', but to us, well, we don't get along. Truth be told though, I…

I sincerely promise I won't be turning this quiet corner of the web into a Dad blog. No one's going to be interested in that stuff (or slightly less interested than the usual rubbish that appears here I should say). So this is the 'last post but one' post on the imminent baby. The last one…

I got the Eurostar to Brussels in August for something or other to do with work.   It was smooth, convenenient, no hassle, no massive check in problems. But something was missing. There isn't the sense of 'leaving' and 'arriving' you get from airports and planes. It's just one train station to another.  When you arrive at another airport, there's…

The longer I live the more the things my Dad says make sense

Imagine someone organised the biggest planning conference ever. Big enough for every planner from the four corners of the Earth to attend. Let's dwell on that for a second- all those converse trainers, moleskins and furrowed brows. Imagine the chaos with no suits to organise it. Ok, good. Now pretend the conference was utterly destroyed in…

Global recession? Global warming? Here's something to really worry about , the price of tea is going up.

"Sir Martin, too, thinks that American and European consumers have been “scarred”, and will take a long time to rediscover the joy of splashing cash around. But as Mr Swinburne points out, advertising has done so badly of late that “it doesn’t have to come back all the way to have a strong recovery” From…