Month: November 2022

The heater

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    This is absolutely my favourite video. You might have seen it before – and you must admit, it’s pretty spectacular: The Hampshire Heater spewing out charcoal sparks as a sort of over-blown indoor firework – and one which definitely contravenes the Health and Safety regulations. Not only did it set fire to the … Read more

History

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Tell me this isn’t weird. I am in Liverpool. Last night I was in Leeds. I had taken my daughter Lottie out to dinner. She’s in her final year at the University there. Lottie is named after the little catamaran I capsized and lost 80 miles north of the Shetland Islands five months before she … Read more