Yorkshire Bitter

It’s only a few weeks now before the Greens invade the area hoping to shut down the mighty Drax Power Station. Let’s hope their scientific knowledge is better than their map-reading skills, though, as they’re actually going to be camping near Ferrybridge.
The Camp For Climate Action’s argument is that Drax, along with its neighbours Ferrybridge […]

I’ve finally progressed from accessing the internet through the wireless laptop in the garden to taking the laptop to the pub and being an al fresco geek in the beer garden. Currently I’m posting this blog from a Wetherspoons in Leeds.
The technology has been around for years, of course, and indeed I’ve had a wi-fi network at […]

I had a bit of a shock on Thursday when I took my pride and joy, a rather snazzy high-performance sports car (not saying exactly what it is or too many local people will work out who this mystery blogger is, ha!) in for its MOT.
I knew it would probably fail on the handbrake, which […]

I ordered a telescopic flagpole from a firm called Sky Blue Leisure on Friday. This is for the campsite for a music festival I’m attending this week. For the benefit of people who don’t attend such things, a flag is a way of enabling people to find your campsite easily as “it’s the blue tent […]

…but I suspect the backlash against him has only just begun.
For the benefit of non-Brits or those with no interest in football, England crashed out of the World Cup quarter-finals against Portugal yesterday in an all-too-familiar pattern: key player gets sent off, remaining 10 players heroically take the game to their opponents and create many […]

Yorkshire cricket legend Fred Trueman has passed away, I’m sad to hear.

Fred was one of the old skool, a proud no-nonsense Yorkshireman and one of the most feared fast bowlers in the world.
I reported in this blog back in May that he had been diagnosed with cancer and hoped Fiery Fred’s fighting spirit would pull […]