My picture of a train bursting out of the West portal of Box Tunnel - taken a year or two back - come up as one of the top hits on Google.
But Box tunnel has two ends ... and this morning when I visited my dentist who practises there (Corsham), I drove over the road near to it and stopped. A litt ....
Hi, I'm Freddie the fallow deer and I would like to introduce you to my home at Dyrham Park.
Some of the older trees in the park have fallen and newer trees have been planted ... and there's plenty of grass for me and my friends to eat!
Avenues of new trees disappear over the horizon and th ....
So many people know the basis of PHP - the language constructs themselves and how they work individually - but could really benefit from learning how to make the best of those elements. And these techniques for putting the elements together are so important that they should not be crammed onto the e ....
No-one can get everything they do 100% right every time - things will go wrong, even in the most carefully assessed circumstances where all practical steps have been taken to reduce the risk. I feel secure, and fully knowledgeable of the line below which the quality of service that I get at the part ....
There are certain locations which used to fill me with horror as to how I was going to work out the logistics of getting my equipment in and out for a course. And today's was one of those for which I would have looked on a map and shuddered. Take Liverpool Street, Aldgate and Bank (in the City of Lo ....
Here's a picture taken on Sunday evening on he bridge over the river Wensum in Norwich; it's a fast moving week - I'm writing from Beckton in East London this morning, and I'll be in the City in just over an hour!
I have updated my Norwich pictures too! ....
When you're running an Apache httpd web server, you should run it using a separate daemon user account and group set up for the purpose and not run it as either root (a horrific thing to do, as it would lead to all sorts of security holes) or nobody (another very bad idea, as the "nobody" applicatio ....
There are certain pictures which look fabulous full-screen, but are rather weak when sized down. The picture on the left - of the heath lands near Elveden in Norfolk, in the fog yesterday morning is one such. If you click here, you'll see it larger and in a new window. ....
I think the copy of "Steam Engines at Bressingham" - written by Alan Bloom - is still on my shelves at home. It was certainly a book the I read, and reread as I struggled with English which was my weakest vital academic subject. It told of a man running a horticultural business with a passion for st ....
It's two class 20 locomotives on the front of a rake of early Mark 2 coaches, with some later mark 2 coaches and a class 57 on the rear, passing through Melksham this morning on an Oxford to Weymouth excursion train. It was only just on time as the single line at Thingley was cleared 5 late by the ....