More landlord bashing... Well why not, we are the "scum of the earth" after all...
With a shortage of housing and renters fleeing the market in the UK
Quote - Milton Friedman
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The Finest Hotel in Kabul - Lyse Doucet
Afghanistan is often remembered as the “graveyard of empires”—a terrain that broke the ambitions of Alexander the Great, Victorian Britain, and the Soviet Union. Yet in The Finest Hotel in Kabul, BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet charts the country’s turbulent modern saga not through battlefields, but through a single, extraordinary vantage point: the Inter-Continental Hotel.
One of us - Elizebeth Day
This is the first book from [Ms Day](https://www.elizabethday.org/) that I have read. t did take me a while to get into it, but I decide that I'd hunker down and finish it.
Sipping Gin in the mid September sunshine. Way to go...
Living on the Isle of Wight does have some advantages. Being a holiday destination it does have some lovely places to visit and to spend some time.
Another year, another PLASA
After more than 45 years in the entertainment industry—most of them spent as a lighting designer—you might assume I would be a regular at the PLASA Show, the anual entertainment technology show in London. In fact, that has not been the case.
Picture of the week no.6
As far as man made machinery goes, there is no doubt that the Airbus A380 is at the top of the list
Backup. My new goto..!
I self-host most, if not all, of my digital life: email, websites, music, photos. As I say, most, if not all. I have a Google account, but there is not really much on it. That begs the question... Do I back up all this stuff? Well, the answer is yes, very much so.
Visitors to be charged a "Road Tax" to use Belgian roads.
Visitors to be charged a "Road Tax" to use Belgian roads.
Another Cowes Week over...
The 200th Cowes Week ends today. It was a good week that we actually took part in.