A reactionary by any chance ? 

Does he suggest the NHS is a Marxist organisation ?

Cheers  😁

Dont do it guys. Politics will ruin this thread. Learn from my example and change your ways before its too late.

Morphy wrote on Oct 24^th, 2021 at 8:42am:


It would also help if people stop bringing it up all the time.

Have to admit I don't read much non-fiction.

But one book i did read recently that was based on an act of sheer lunacy.
Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gironimo-Riding-Very-Terrible-Italy/dp/0224100157/ref=s...

I have no interest in cycling. But a few years back this book was serialised on the radio - an abridged version.
And it was totally brilliant !
One of the funniest books I've read since sir terry passed on.

This idiot set out to ride the route of the worst bicycle race in recorded history. On an old bike from the period with wooden wheels and tubeless tires.
And 'brakes' made from wine bottle corks.

And the thing about riding up italian mountains, is that eventually you have to go back down again. with barely functuional brakes.
How he's still alive is anyones guess.

The audio series would appear to no longer be available and i bought a used paperback.

It's worth anything you pay, if you can find a copy - just brilliantly funny and totally insane. 

Reading Rocket Mass Heaters. It's not as...distilled down to principles as I'd like.

I had hoped to make a earthen oven this year but my youngest ate up all that time. So next year I plan on making both an earthen oven for my wife to bake in and I will add a decent rocket stove to it as well.

    I just started reading The Pioneers by David McCullough.  It's about the settling of the Ohio Valley in the late 1700s.  I can already tell it's an excellent book.

Slyngorm wrote on Nov 10^th, 2021 at 3:30pm:

why?