A few years ago, a Swiss skydiver, Felix Baumgartner, spent two hours being lofted up to 128,000 feet by a balloon and was now standing in the doorway of his capsule about to jump ...

I'd waited all week for a sunny day and finally, on Friday, the skies were blue and the temperature was just right. I grabbed my camera, found a footpath and headed into the fields ...

Space is so massive that we can't comprehend the distances involved in getting from one planet to another, let alone to another star. These numbers belong on a mathematician's blackboard ...

Growing up, I didn't have any technology to distract me; we only had two channels on our black and white TV! I would wander barefoot around the beautiful countryside I was brought up in ...

Who's read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne? I did recently and it talks about the Law Of Attraction, manifestation and how you can have everything you want ...

Last week, I should have been blogging about my favourite space probe Rosetta, but the loss of a good friend took priority. However, this week, let's talk about all that spacey awesomeness ...

On the last Friday of September, I woke up as usual and wondered where my little girl cat Willow was. Normally, I have a face full of purrs and she's the first thing I see when I open my eyes ...

Running your own business can be an unforgiving experience. Up at the crack of dawn, working solidly all day then finishing work in the wee small hours. Repeat seven days a week ...

Do you see rain as a replenishment of the water table allowing our green and pleasant land to stay, erm, green and pleasant or do you see it as something that brings down your mood?

A sunny day in Buckinghamshire found me driving through the country lanes to attend Olney Business Live 2016. This was the inaugural trade event for the town and the day was brilliant ...

Way back in 1994, I was working for The Open University as an IT trainer. I loved running courses there. I used to teach faculty members how to use Windows, Word, Excel and PowerPoint ...

When my main PC decided to not to send any video recently, I had to get a new computer. Being tight on funds at the time, I got a Sumvision Cyclone Mini PC from Amazon ...

We've all tuned into The Procrastination Station at one time or another. Some of us tune in quite regularly and live our lives never having achieved success. Me? Well, I tune in at rare times ...

The 28th January marked the anniversary of NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger exploding just over a minute from take-off, and the 1st February was the disintegration of Columbia on re-entry ...

With the passing of Lemmy, David Bowie, Alan Rickman and now Sir Terry Wogan, I am once again reminded of this brief and fleeting thing we call life. It's far shorter than you may think ...