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Absolutely, I've never stopped learning and enjoy it, looking for every opportunity to learn more of what is factual. The letdown with age though is the physical side, in my case my heart is very limiting, it's in the family on my mother's side. She had a mechanical replacement heart valve at...

Thanks, it's unlikely I'll need Topaz often for my web application, but nice to know for those occasions. Being in my late eighties now, much of my experience is from the days of film and while loving digital's convenenience, I'm critical of it's shortcomings in terms of the sensor performances...

Agreed, in fact in an earlier life I was in the photographic trade for four years and later with a French engineering company worked with the advanced optics of specialised photo composing machines, so all this is familiar. But everything I take now is destinated for the web and reduced for...

Indeed. The only thing government might consider privatising is government itself. That at least could hardly get worse.

I dont use gas, and it seems like I've enjoyed the best experience. For many years I was with EDF and had the benefit of quarterly electricity bills, but after not bothering to change for smallish savings, I finally did some four years ago, choosing Bulb. And I've liked Bulb very much, not the...

I've long been an Open Source advocate for the internet so I'm not worried about others freely using my photos. Pedelecs doesn't have exclusive rights on the photos since they are all previously published, mainly on the nature reserve organisation website I'm on the committee of. And anyway...

It seems insects spotters/bug hunters are too rare to have gained a special name yet. Twitchers is for Birders but calling Bug hunters Buggers would be misunderstood ! I rarely use the long zoom, but here's the two extremes of my Panasonic TZ70 lens illustrated, the Parakeets at 30 times, the...

They won't have needed much strong arming, the Australians have been heading towards being a virtual 51st state of the USA for decades. From the cars they buy, the way they behave, to the houses they live in, the Australians are far more closely aligned to the USA than Britain. .

Just the one built into that Konica pocket camera. I had better cameras but with the difficulty of photographing into the mouth of a jam jar I wanted the minimum of intrusion and size to avoid frightening the spider unnecessarily. I long ago gave up on SLRs and the like for my entomological...

With us gone, these friends on mine will be very pleased. .

They won't care, they largely feed themselves and much of that revenue is used to buy western assets. The west is in hock to them in so many ways. .

I don't care, I can only act for myself and I'll be dead and gone quite soon. If the rest of the human race wants to commit suicide after I've gone that's a very good thing, since we've done nothing but damage to the earth for at least 1000 years. The rest of the animal world will benefit...

China is playing the clever long game over Taiwan. They'll only take it at the best opportune moment when the west is at its weakest amd most fragmented. They calculate that if timed well, it will be another Crimea. Lots of huffing and puffing from the west but nothing much done. What can...

No it does not !! My electricity supplier only uses renewable sources: Nor does my home use any gas, as a long term environmentalist I ripped it out and got British Gas to remove the meter in 1970. That made me 55 years ahead of the present government who intend to stop gas installation in...

DanD has jogged my memory on the model name, it is the Juicy Sport. In fact over the years they mainly came equipped with a Silver Fish 36 volt 10 Ah battery as this photo below shows, so it might be ready to receive one of those again:

No problem, as I keep posting but it never seems to sink in with IC thinkers, e-cars charge overnight when electricity is plentiful and customers for it are few. .

Very much like me, a lifelong taste for a fairly wide range of classical music, both recorded and live. Old age has reduced my hearing ability so that's affected the amount of my listening too. .

You really are a dinosaur! The UK is now down to under 6,000 fuel stations from once having over 10,000. But it now has over 25,000 public charging points with rapidly increasing numbers of them rapid and very rapid charging at up to 350 kW rate. And like all petrolheads your thinking is...

Yes, it is a Juicybike model but I don't remember its model name. If you contact Juicybike the principle and founder of the company, Bob Wales, will be able to tell you all you need to know. If you use the Pedeelcs link below you'll see an Interview with Bob and Sarah Wales with a photo at...

So what, no difference from an IC car. The Suzuki SX4 SZ5 petrol 4x4 I had before my e-car gave me 47 mpg driven at moderate speeds, but only 27 mpg driven flat out in the early hours driving to Dorset. That's as bad or worse than any e-car driven in those two contrasting ways. No, they...