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That may be due to the sunlight coming through the window. The second picture is after darkness had fallen.

I've never been a huge fan of the fluorescent light over the bench, it was a 'temporary measure' twenty five years ago and is 'OK', but I resolved to replace it with six 5W LED GU10s. It was a bit of a fiddle to do, but it'll be worth it - a better spread of light and a 'nicer' colour...

Or a concerted campaign of deliberate misrepresentation.

Or even use 'its own colour'.

Last weekend, somebody hit a lamppost and part of the town's streetlighting system collapsed, so that the streets on my side of the town centre here are dark, remarkably dark, like it used to be in the 70s. Wandering into town has required me to reinstall the previous programme - walking down...

In the 70s, I used to go to Ireland for September each year, to my uncle's farm. After a few years, I resolved to make an effort to get Stafford people to interact a bit more. I had a walk of exactly a mile to work and I generally saw much the same people every morning. On the Monday morning, my...

Osama bin Laden would still be alive if he'd just moved to Stafford.

I had cause to use these last night, to smooth the rough edge of a replacement tabletop in the pub They are Cintride hand sanders. Plastic holders for thin steel sheets with tungsten carbide grit brazed to them - 'everlasting sandpaper'. Very effective and long-lasting - I bought them around...

Fancy a Chinese tonight?

Product placement.

Get someone with a blue badge to block them in?

I remember someone, possibly Graeme Garden, returning an uncompleted survey form. "I was unable to complete your survey as I couldn't find the box to tick for "buttockclenchingly piss-poor".

I am less prone to the early morning start than you might be, so I expect to survive this decision. Gripped by the fervour, I have also taken the handle off the snow shovel, to make its summer storage more efficient - although, this does stay in the house. Digging your way to the Shed to get...

The annual ceremony marking the end of winter has occurred. A (very) small procession has carried the de-icer spray from its winter location in the hall down to the summer quarters in the Shed.

Did he tell you he had a cock-a-poo?

I worked with someone who left because of his boss. He got a new job elsewhere. Six weeks later, he had a new boss at the new place. Well, it was an old boss, really... He left again...

The usual thumb signal is more likely to get you a lift.

That was not about the air fryer, it was about your complete failure as a supervisor.

Someone insisted on giving me an air fryer and I've finally actually used it, after a month, to cook chicken and too many chips. It seemed to turn out OK. We'll see if I survive the night.