Prometheus in Aspic

Further to yesterday's post, I got an interesting suggestion from the Duc de Gobin, the noted historian, engineer, velocipedist, wing-wa...

Yesterday I attended a wargame in the company of Stryker and Goya, at Stryker's house. We played an excellent Napoleonic game based on t...

On a visit to Edinburgh this week, I noticed this. On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley (wh...

Humbug!

I decided I would find out once and for all about the picture on the wall of my mother's room. I took a couple of ...

My personal context for this post is just a regulation-issue, time-of-life thing. I visit my elderly mother in her nursing home each week ...

Yesterday I visited a friend of mine, a retired architect. When I say retired, the term is relative - he still takes on some private wor...