Picture Tuesday: National Union of Mineworkers. Took this picture quite a while back with my old Motorola V360

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms - Groucho Marx (b:October 2, 1890 – d:August 19, 1977)

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves - Abraham Lincoln

The worst men often give the best advice, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts – from Festus by Philip James Bailey

There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share - Steve Ballmer (2007)

Music Thursday: Jefferson Airplane. Picked this CD up in the UK. Not much detail on when or where each song was recorded, but an interesting collection none the less

Wednesday Life Hack: Baked beans. You can't always get what you want, and you can't always eat what you get. I found that rather than waste, it was easy enough to put what I couldn't get through into a small plastic container and into the deep freeze

Picture Tuesday: Rain Spider. Used to be lots of these little fellas on the walls, but then the Geckos moved in and the became a rare sight. They could move super fast

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat - Confucius

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly, devils fall because of their gravity - GK Chesterton

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones Shakespeare

1946 - Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night - Darryl Zanuck

Music Thursday: Get off my Cloud, by The Rolling Stones. Who might be gathering a bit of moss these days, but were rather hip back then sixty plus years ago

Life Hack Wednesday: The Quick breakfast. In a hurry? I was so I sprinkled Coffee and sugar on my cereal. Out of milk? It happens. Yes? U2? So use one of those instant 1cup coffee sachets to feed U and wake U

Picture Tuesday: Very old picture of me, taken over 60 years ago at the Barry Island docks. I scanned this picture from a 127mm negative. Back in the day you took photos, then had to send the film to be developed and printed, that part alone could take a few weeks

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are - Confucius – (b:551 BC d: 09 March 479 BC)

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost - The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama)

Our new Constitution promises many things, but in life there are only two certainties, Death and Taxes - Benjamin Franklin (b:17 January 1706 – d: 17 April 1790)

The horse is here to stay but the auto-mobile is only a novelty... a fad - President of the Michigan Savings Bank

Music Thursday: Mungo Jerry and Baby Jump. Well have to say this was a bit of a change in direction. Loved 'In the Sumertime' and 'Lady Rose' but now they are showing that they are not just a 'jug' band. Even knocked George Harrison off the #1 spot