Now this is a great event for anyone that has been strolling around Machrie Moor specifically or generally been walking on the Isle of Arran.

A very delayed cheers and best whishes to ALL women.

Works today just like it did forty years ago.

It is again time to sample some Christmas beer. I hope this is a good one.

In my youth I used to play the clarinet. Never actually owned one myself so I recently for fun bought a good quality “plastic”  instrument (so it will be mostly maintenance free). Got a very good deal on this one, just the mouthpieces that came with it are basically worth as much as I gave for the whole package.

This olive oil from Crete is among the absolute best I have tasted. Luckily I can buy this one as well as many others from my local Yasou Café.

The first actual computer that I ever programmed? In my case that would be something that in my day was called a mini-computer. Mini in the sense that it was no larger than the average refrigerator (at least when you included the rack it was sitting in). And here it is, the Alpha/LSI-2 from Computer Automation.

As a recently retired software developer is has been fun to look back at where it all started. In my youth I swore by Texas Instruments calculators, although to tell you the truth they were not very durable. This is the first one I had that could be programmed.