Deborah Orr’s lovely article in the Guardian this week ‘Value your health: head for the inner city, and swerve the ‘burbs’ got me thinking. Her premise is that people who live in the Inner City are healthier than people, like me in Ealing, who live in the ‘burbs’. The reason? Because people in the Inner Cities …
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Clean Air Day
It’s National Clean Air Day today, so I wrote the following letter to my MP. Hi Ruth, Congratulations on your re-election to represent the people of Chiswick again. I am extremely concerned about the air pollution situation in this country and the lack of will by the current Government to address this with a cohesive …
PC World Customer Service Problems
Update on the PCWorld DPD eCommerce problems. 25/04/2017 @ 9:30 Soon after I published my blog post about PCWorld’s terrible customer service I started receiving some strange comments on it. At first, I thought they were a friend messing around with me. So I thought nothing of it but they kept on coming and they were …
Justice & The Science of Climate Change
It was an honour to speak alongside Energy Expert Steve Pye and Pastor Mark Melluish at St Paul’s Church last night. Here are my slides from my part of the talk, with audio and video following from St Paul’s soon.
When IT goes bad – a story of PCWorld and DPD system failures
Timeline of how PC World and DPD deliveries completely fail their customer. 27/03/2017 @ 10:49 I made an order for 3 items with my PC World business account. The PC World website did not confirm which delivery address the order would be shipped to. 27/03/2017 @ 10:50 I received the confirmation email from PC World …
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Amazing Chaz F Hill bike
Next up for the Vintage Bikes is the truly stunning Chaz F Hill. There isn’t a lot of information on the internet about Chaz F Hill and they’re not to be confused by the more common Hill Specials. Chaz F Hill were founded in the 19th Century and made lovely steel framed bicycles, the family …
The Carbon Cost of Skiing
We love to ski almost as much as we love the environment but there is an obvious conflict between the two. The two factors that most concern us most are the CO2 emissions from the travel and the air pollution from vehicles in the vulnerable mountain regions. Looking into travelling to Mt Blanc, we found …
Freddy Grubb Vintage Frame
I have this lovely Freddy Grubb 1950’s 20″ frameset on sale here on Ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232189955526 It’s in lovely condition, and thanks to the experts who follow these bikes on Ebay, is likely to be a 1951 Perfection with exquisite lugs. As you can see the lug work is stunning and nicely picked out with the …
Thoughts on Beyond The Flood
After watching Beyond The Flood we came to the conclusion that the world is in dire peril and how we approach this information comes down to the following metaphor: When the Titanic was sinking how did you choose to spend your last 15 minutes? Were you fighting for a place in the lifeboats, hiding in …