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KidneyStone Restaurant Guide

Writing is the main point of tachras, and it would appear that writing about restaurants and food is not only a literary high-point, but financially rewarding as well …

…so here goes. If Michelin Tyres can do it, then so can KidneyStone Tyres.

The KidneyStone Restaurant Guide.

We’d been there before, several years ago, and knew that [...]

Dave's Books

Well, it took a bit of effort, but the book collection is on site.

Dave’s Book Collection

Total is in excess of 1800 books (more will undoubtedly appear). My original estimate was higher, but I was counting by the inch and a lot of the books are thicker than the older ones. A lot are over 1,000 pages.

The [...]

The Gentle Hand

Stop screaming, damn you!
So some of us can sleep.
I know the pain that drives your scream,
the hell that lives within your dream,
andĀ if I could, I’d take away, the agony that one must pay,
for fragile bones and weaker flesh.
No man can stand before the storm and come away with life untorn.
I hold my hand and still the [...]

Keep marching!

Well, it’s been a helluva week!

Insulted by the Managing (barely) Director. There will come a time …

Informed by the local council that the road I drive to work (possibly the only really hilly road in the entire county) would not be gritted because of ‘Salt Rationning’. Why wasn’t it gritted when you had salt? I could [...]

Old Age

Thought for the day.

Maturity is when you realise that many things in life are unimportant.

Old Age is when you stop pretending that [...]