The Shed

This is the fifth year of my Beer Advent Calendar – once again I look forward to trying different brews that I wouldn’t normally choose. An Advent calendar is a special calendar used to count down the days of Advent leading up to Christmas. Some calendars are strictly religious, but today most advent calendars are […]

UPDATE: August 2014, since I posted this in June 2012 I’ve helped many websites appear on the first page of the search engines. I have a proven method of optimisation which works every time and I can do as little or as much as the budget allows. My Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) success extends to […]

I have now found out how to make the chapters of an audio book play in order, in sequence, in my Sansa Fuze and this probably works for several other brands of MP3 players. When I load an audio book into my Sansa Fuze, the chapters don’t always appear together, sometimes they are scattered among […]

Dropbox gives users 2Gb of free online storage. You have a Dropbox folder on your PC and anything you put in it is automatically copied to your Dropbox online account. You can access your account from any computer and browse or copy the files,  logging in with the standard Username and Password system which is […]

The Queen Mother, Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002, lived to the age of 101. There’s no doubt she was tough and inherited strong genes, but also that she always had the best doctors and specialists at any time of the day or night. I developed my ‘Queen Mother Principle’ […]

A couple of years ago I discovered Curry Barking Mad Mick’s website with loads of videos of UK Indian Curry chefs cooking various Indian Curries. My search to create an Indian Curry to restaurant standard has been immensely helped by theses videos and the downloadable PDF book Mick had for sale. Now the PDF has […]

For a long time I’ve enjoyed the look and sound of Tim’s Trans Am as it arrives at the Car Club Meetings. The deep noted, burbling exhaust sounds really good, and the car exudes brute power from every gleaming curve. In 1972 Pontiac Trans Am’s came in only two colours – Cameo White with blue […]

I upgraded to windows 7 Premium and Stereo Mix was completely missing.If you have problems trying to record audio from your PC, HERE’S THE SOLUTION Stereo Mix is used to transfer audio that the PC is playing to recording software such as Audacity, so that you can record what you’re hearing. I spent several days […]

Changing the order that accounts are displayed in Outlook is not as simple as other email browsers. Outlook puts the Main account at the top and other accounts below that are listed Alphabetically. So if you want to change the order of the accounts in Outlook,  just add a letter of the alphabet in front […]

Here is the latest version of  my method of creating a Restaurant standard Indian Curry, of the Madras style. Always use fresh ingredients , especially the spice mix!! RECIPE Rob’s Curry Method December 2011 This method uses red wine in the Marinade which turns the marinade into a tasty gravy (Garabi) The onions can be […]