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Are virtual meetings more useful than face-to-face meetings? The prompt to this question was a request for a customer for whom I am doing a gardening job to come round and discuss the next development. I wrote to him saying that I have a photographic memory and would be very happy if he were to stand at a vantage point halfway down the steps and we can talk through the garden situation without...

OK that is a giveaway in that I admit I am a biological male. I can tell that because of my external appendages. If in doubt, look south.  Did anyone try this on the 'male' boxer who presented herself at the Paris Olympics?  I'm sure the BBC would beg to differ with me because they are convinced there are 156 different sexes but I'm one of these old fashioned types that say God created male and...

Brian: About the method of reading books especially serious stuff I will tell you what happens.  I read a couple of pages and I can get so excited by an idea that I have to stop reading and pace around for half an hour and I just wondered what your experience was a reading stuff. Friend: It depends of what it is. If it's stuff I've done and really know I could only read for a few minutes and...

Today I returned my very heavy 31 kilogram workhorse electric bike to the very knowledgeable lady who runs the scheme in Radstock. I had not ridden it as much as I would have liked but I have discovered the following: 1. Once you have learned to ride a bike you never forget 2. Riding a bike is vulnerable because you are not protected by a steel case as is the case with cars and other vehicles 3....