So, I decided to build a Pi based ZX Spectrum emulator, inside a ZX Spectrum case. Celebrating 40 years of the Spectrum and all that…
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When your neighbour is a nutter
I’ve lived in the same rented flat for the last 11 years. It is one flat out of three. I live at the back, so I say out of the way and avoid the others.
Over the years there have been a few people in the other flats, and I’ve never had any problems with any of them. Then a nutter moved in.
Get your kicks, on the A66
The route of legend, Route 66, runs from Chicago to Los Angeles. Some call it the Main Street of America, and some think it an American Icon, the sort of people who don’t know the meaning of the word “icon”, obviously. Anyway, it runs for nearly 2,500 miles, and is the subject of entitled peoples’ road trips.
Magical Mystery Tour
My on-going mission to listen to music I’ve not listened to before, and decide if I like it or not…
After slating Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, I was pointed towards Magical Mystery Tour, and as it will only take about 19 minutes of my life from me…
Fleetwood Street OO Model Tramway – Version 2
In the past I tried to model a street in Fleetwood as a static tramway display. I made mistakes, so I’m starting again.
This time it is a 1185x190mm shelf plank, and is being planned before I start gluing stuff down.
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Amstrad PCW8256
The PCW8256 was the first computer that I actually got paid to work with. My mum’s friend’s husband wanted to computerise the records from his window cleaning business. The year was 1985, and child labour was still legal then.
Desire – Bob Dylan
So, in my foolish plot to expose myself (not in that way) to more music, I have followed the advice of Jon, and subjected my self to Bob Dylan’s Desire (again, not in that way).
Well. Firstly, I have to say I’m not really a Dylan fan (apart from his work in The Traveling Wilburys). But, what the hell, I gave it a listen.
Here goes…
The JAGverse
In the beginning the was Bellisario and the Void. And Bellisario looked upon the Void and the darkness and proclaimed “Let there be JAG”, and thus there was JAG.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Ok, so I made an agreement with the voices in my head that I would, once a week, listen to an album that either I hadn’t listened to “all the way through”, or had never listened to at all.I guess I picked the wrong one to start with.
Books Read in 2022
Since I’m now going to list every book I’ve read, I need to put down the list of what I read in 2022.
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