Helpful votes received on reviews:90% (1,517 of 1,682)
Location: Kent, UK
In My Own Words:
Professional service firm manager and - I hope - leader. Father of two teenage daughters. Radio 4 listener.
Interests
Business and personal development (of course! both academic and popular); Running (rather slowly); skiing (rather inelegantly); hillwalking (Munro Bagging); climate science (a subscriber to the idea of AGW but tending towards scepticism regards the e… Read more
Business and personal development (of course! both academic and popular); Running (rather slowly); skiing (rather inelegantly); hillwalking (Munro Bagging); climate science (a subscriber to the idea of AGW but tending towards scepticism regards the extent to which irreversible damage is being done); economics (esp libertarian economics and anarcho-capitalism). Military and naval history; Reading!
A few years ago a colleague told me (I'm sure he was reporting something he read, but who knows, maybe this was original thought or even God forbid, research) that the reason that lawns were so popular in Britain was not that we liked green space (small green spaces, in the main) but that British men felt the need to own lawn mowers. It was a sort of macho, or maybe British techno-geek, thing.
Howard probably has some sort of John Deere ride-on machine now to ride his Sussex acres, but I was never convinced. HOWEVER, I could easily accede to a similar argument for pressure washers. Bought this machine today, and was amazed. Haven't had as much fun in ages. I bought it… Read more
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This is a brilliant novel. I may have been predisposed to liking it - I am fascinated by the world of the samurai of mediaeval Japan, by martial prowess, by the concept of honour and a code that demands ritual suicide as a badge of honour and obedience. I am also, I have to admit, intrigued by Japanese sexual mores; at the same time in history when 5% of the female population of Europe were living in nunneries, the author, Barbara Lazar tells us in her historical notes at the end, polygamy was rife, fidelity important but divorce common, and adult virgins were considered suspicious! The idea that a peasant girl, a "fifth daughter", sold by her father for an additional field and forced… Read more
This is the second set of these scales that we have purchased. The first set stopped working after a relatively short period of time (well, I think it was relatively short, a couple of years) and as we'd liked them we gave Salter the benefit of the doubt and bought a second one. Now, a couple of years on, they've gone the same way, coming up with a weight that is three or four times the actual weight of an item.
I was also a little annoyed about the way the digital display became clouded - I can only imagine that moisture got into it and with the moisture some sort of fungal growth, despite the appearance of it being nicely sealed..
