Recent content by Ron Dough

I've voted for Gilmour, though I've always felt that the combination was greater than the sum of its parts - as with Lennon and McCartney....

If you've not yet reached the stage of laying down your plywood yet, you might like to plan your track first, so that you can leave gaps where the 'ground' is going to be lower than the trackbed (even Norfolk's not that flat, and nothing helps the sense of scenery more than a landscape of...

Poundland have been doing anti-midge wrist straps with replaceable patches which include citronella among the constituents: I took one with me on my last West Coast visit, but since there were no midges about, I never got round to trying it.... Outdoor clothing manufacturers such as Rohan and...

It's still a major failing of any of these calculation systems that they can't allow for the relative proportions of muscle mass to fat. Since muscle weighs more, muscly folk will always show a higher result in a BMI calculation - a notable and oft-quoted example being in cases where the...

There's a recent revision of the BMI calculator, which makes better provision for differing heights, so taller peoples' index comes down a bit, whilst that of shorter folk rises...

And, to redress the balance, hello Derek from one who used to live 'Darn Sarf' but is now in Angus.

There's a theory that midges and mozzies tend to avoid bodies which have a smell of higher levels of yeast, though I don't think there's any scientific proof yet. Worth trying though, if you're a Marmite/Vegemite lover. Was up in the NW about a month ago (Mallaig and Smaller Isles) and saw...

If your supply of Skin so soft doesn't turn up on time - or for anyone else who's up that way and is not yet provisioned or has just run out, the Tea Room at Crianlarich station holds a stock of it. Even if you have plenty, it's a good place for a break in any case....

This all presupposes that Time Lords'/Ladies' DNA behaves in a similar fashion to that of human beings, whereas in practice it can behave according to the whim of whatever creative team is dealing with it at the time and their interpretation and realignment of the back- (and presumably front-!)...

Doesn't that make two? (The other being his granddaughter Susan, the eponymous heroine of the first-ever episode, An Unearthly Child, which I'm old enough to have been able to have seen, but for the fact that I was at boarding school at the time.)

Great that they're breaking the cycle of apparently ever-younger doctors: there's no doubting that Matt Smith worked for many viewers, but the frenetic puppy act seemed to affect the pace of the shows, making them feel rather light-weight even when the plots were fundamentally serious. Peter...

Have you tried the 650s? http://en-uk.sennheiser.com/high-quality-headphones-around-ear-audio-surround-hd-650 Very comfortable, with an accurate, neutral, unfatiguing sound - I regularly wear them for much of the day, and frankly, but for the cables, soon forget they're there, since they...

Absolutely - and I'm sure anyone looking back at your version of an event which can never be repeated will appreciate that it presents a clear record of what happened, particularly given the issues of your new location hunt and the poor available light - nice work! Bearing in mind the huge...

Was hoping to be able to make this, but family commitments have intervened and there's no way I'll be able to manage it now. Looks like a fine location you've found there: the Calmac ferry trip from Wemyss Bay to Rothesay just won't be the same without it dominating the skyline. There...

I've a sneaking suspicion....;) Thanks for the welcome (and Pinkbikerbabe's, too).