Author: nickjones

Today I passed the 100mile mark whilst dropping down into Hawes. I now only 155 miles to go. George appeared at the cafe and whisked me off to Kendal and some fine cooking and shoulder massage. His wife Jacqui (A professional podiatrist) also introduced me to to the wonders of Hapla Fleecy Web (made by […]

Made it to Malham and many thanks to Simon the owner of Beck Hall B&B who has loaned me this laptop so I can do an entry. Wed 26 April 2006Caught train from Cambridge to Edale a pretty good service leaving at 15.10 and arriving at 19.47. Stayed at The Rambler Country House Hotel not […]

Ellee and I (well mainly Ellee) have had our second blogging article published in The Cambridge Evening News today (over 40 column inches!). The article is currently on the internet at this page it will be interesting to see how long it remains there. before disappearing into the great CEN silo never to re-appear.

I’ve decided to venture up to the land of peat and bogs to make a second attempt at The Pennine Way. George, Steve and I made a start 41 years ago in 1965. We packed up at Malham having completed 66miles, Steve decided he had enough . (Following week I cycled from Blackpool to Edinburgh […]

Excellent article from John Dvorak clearly stating why Microsoft blundered when they suddenly went into the browser business. Afraid I have uninstalled my IE7 as it caused Firefox to seize up and anyway it didnt seem to offer any advantages over Firefox.

Downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7beta this morning all 12MB of it plus all its ‘updates’, after all it was released yesterday. I thought I would see what extensions were available:- Wow just look at the size of those downloads! and they expect me to pay for them too! Interestingly the default search engine is […]

NHS Blog Doctor writes that British GPs win Eurolottery: “A full time partner in my practice currently earns about £140,000 year net of expenses. Over the last two years, we have had a pay rise of between twenty and twenty-five percent” and of cause, he states,you can increase your pay by these lovely ruses too […]

Took myself off for my first lesson in Real Tennis today under the guidance of Kees Ludekens the senior coach at Cambridge University Real Tennis Club, yep a bit of a mouthful and rather offputting as you don’t have to belong to the university at all to join. Really enjoyable especially under Kees eagle eye, […]

At last the green power community have homed in on the right thing for us folks on this sceptred isle to do. One project that can provide upto 7% of the UK’s electricity for the next few hundred years with no pollution greenhouse gases, radiation or fuel costs. The BBC report today that the Severn […]

Following on from my recent post where I was one of 162 (now 168) people who have signed up for the Hear from your MP service. Last week David happened to turn up at the door promoting his local bod (Steven Cooper whose interests I note are ethereal – Music, Singing, Film, Holiness, Justice rather […]