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4 mph is for shorter level walks like half a mile to the local shops. After the break there I can repeat it going back until I hit the hill at the end. Then it's at least halved! But it's increasingly dependent on how I feel from day to day, the times when I'm not up to it are becoming more...

Indeed there were plenty of early prototypes both before and just after 1900, including in Britain, something I've covered previously. See this post .

Cloud cuckoo land. At any one point in time there is only so much wealth, we can't live in a past or future time. Wealth creation doesn't come from nowhere, it has a cost, if only in our own need to house, feed and otherwise maintain ourselves while creating. Very often that cost is a...

These tactics could only work for a tiny country, there is a related example in Luxembourg which is wealthy. But for all manner of complex reasons it can't translate to such as the UK or Germany. Fundamentally there is only so much wealth, however it's defined, and only a minority can ever be...

Several things wrong with that. First we cannot continually increase our trading deficit by borrowing what we don't earn, since eventually we won't be able to meet the interest costs or make repayments. Then the lenders won't lend any more at bearable interest rates. Secondly the interest...

The risk at low cadences is more a matter of joint damage, particularly the knees which cyclists often damage. Slogging up hills at very low cadences like 40 is very damaging and a good way to ensure suffering severe arthritis in older age. In high load circumstances like hills it's always...

I normally walk quite fast at three to four mph, but that slows when walks are long. Today's country walk was shorter since I was standing still at times taking some bird photos like this redwing at some distance:

I don't think Australia will want Rolf Harris back. New Zealand did take John Mark Tanner who murdered his girl friend and served an 11 year sentence here in Britain. Not wise through since they've now sentenced him to two years nine months for punching his new girl friend there, so I doubt...

Now then, be patient. We haven't left yet. I'm beginning to wonder if we can even find the exit. .

Apples aren't perishable short term, they are commonly stored all Winter long and have been for centuries. They can easily be shipped from New Zealand in cooled containers. The problem as I see it is what do we sell them to pay for the apples etc? Same goes for Australia, they want to sell to...

Wait 'til you're my 83! Then you'll know all about loss of fitness (he said just after returning from a one hour walk). .

I was a keen and strong cyclist and only bought an e-bike originally to help with pulling a large heavily loaded trailer. But despite that restricted e-bike use, it undermined my fitness and I found myself increasingly using the e-bike. Only three years later I'd completely abandoned...

I think the mistake Fingers was to say "living in a dump", since living on low pay doesn't necessarily mean that and "dump" in that context can be received as offensive. You could still have posted it, but with a wink emoticon to illustrate it's light hearted nature and had it received...

I already suspected this was an engineered excuse to get the minister off the hook. It came much too late to be genuine, if it had been genuine they'd have used it the instant criticism started. .

Bad luck, sorry to hear that. Quite probably a commercial's diesel oil which often crops up on bends when overfilled tanks with a leaky filler cap slurp some out. It only needs a tiny amount to spread over a wide area, especially if the road is already slightly damp. It's actually an offence...

May be of some interest: On this link is information about a radio program concerned with how Northern Ireland is being run by civil servants rather than government in the absence of a sitting Assembly

Thanks Ted. Yes the site host's latest software has made a number of changes, we're still getting used to it. .

Only initially for a short period before the bowel problems gradually led to the cancer. However, he'd already made up his mind about an end. The heart valve he had fitted has a limited life but the doctors advised he could have the operation repeated if it started to fail. But he'd already...

Tomorrow Wednesday 13th February, there's a program on the BBC's Radio 4 at 11am that may be of interest. About the civil servants running of N.I., it's titled: "Who Needs Government Anyway?" If the time isn't convenient it can be listened to after the broadcast on the BBC i-Player on this link .

Yes of course. He's still alive, having gone through chemothery, radiotherapy and multiple operations, but has been left with life complicating conditions. However a more relevant answer is this post of what happened to my mother and what she thought about it. I'm a do not resuscitate...