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Here’s the view from the bottom of Wensleydale - Canada geese in the warm green fields along with sheep, against a backdrop of snowy hills. This was taken whilst on a run from West Witton to Wensley through the Bolton Estate over Lord’s Bridge. The beauty of this route is that it almost entirely off-road [...]

While I was heavily re-shaping our books portal this week, I decided to see what was the highest consumer rated book on Amazon UK. An interesting question, thought I, and one which was sure to turn up an interesting result.
Interesting, yes, but not for its variety, all of the top ten are Harry Potter books.
The [...]

Following our piece on the campaign against Phorm software proposals, I e-mailed my local MP, William Hague, asking him to represent my views to the relevant authorities. A speedy response appeared in the post, direct from the House of Commons. Here is the text of the letter:
Dear Ms Haywood,
Thankyou for your email received 18th March, [...]

With Easter Sunday falling particularly early, snow has fallen on Easter Sunday. Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox -which is March 21st. There won’t be another Easter this early for about a hundred and fifty years. The date was set by monks in Whitby who [...]

Badgers attacking frogs - we all know it happens, but how frequently?
We collated the data, which makes some interesting viewing - there’s millions of unreported badger attacks on frogs each year, so obviously, this cannot be considered a conclusive study:

Click on the graph to see it in full size.

Recently I’ve been discussing a few ideas regarding workplace stress, or, rather, stress caused by work which pervades every aspect of many people’s lives.
One of the main focuses of my unscientific study has been on all areas which cause frustration, anxiety and stress in my life. Pretty soon, it became clear that almost all of [...]

BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen as you browse will be accessible by your ISP -this is almost exactly the [...]

Time for a holiday to America. If you haven’t been taken in by offers of store cards, credit cards with 18% interest or mortgages that will go up by hundreds of pounds this summer, it might be a rather opportune time to check out flights to the US of A. While the collapse of the [...]

There has been much made of Facebook’s irresponsibility towards the privacy and control of individual’s data over the last couple of months, the main gripe being that it is nigh on impossible to have your account and information permanently deleted. Part of this is due to Facebook having failed to register as a Data Controller [...]

We considered sending this in to You’ve Been Framed, but decided to put it on the blog instead -and a year later we managed it.
I think this bird saw itself in the windows and mirror of our car and first tried to woo itself