Back in July I told you about Sam the Ugliest Dog in the world, it seems that Sam developed heart problems and in order that he didn’t suffer his family put him down. Here’s to hoping that Sam’s memory lives on.

Thanks to Tom Coates for this link which shows the behaviour of a corn flour/water mix under various physical pressures As a child I was mesmerised by the general weirdness of the “liquid” produced by mixing corn flour and water…I never managed to get it to do the stuff that’s …

It seems they’ve had a kitchen fire at Wycombe Summit dry slope and the main building has gone up in flames. At this point Sputnik the board store is hanging in there and the dendix is still untouched but who knows what’s going to happen. There’s a thread and some …

Saturday was the last leg of this year’s Burton Black Metal series so I headed up to Tamworth on a 270 mile round trip (although this was made easier by lift sharing with Dunx from SCUK) so I actually only had to drive 90 miles. The snow was the slowest …