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I shall study it just to please you Maggie - only providing it wasn't authored by Polly Toynbee.

Yup, join the left-wing opinion formers who really run our mad society - whilst blaming all wrongs on "big business" (which doesn't actually have any sort of a vote - except with its feet) - and who grudgingly trouser all the benefits that capitalism generates. Don't do what I do - do what I tell you to do, in The Guardian. Essential reading for the more intelligent delusionals; so probs doesn't include our Ian then?

Ask a church official and the answer could be the famous Mr God! The precise answer would be easy to find: look in the church records and find out who was the incumbent in 1835 or thereabouts. Ah, someone just sent me: A strong connection with our little furry friends there I think - or at least his sons had. I knew that all along - of course! So we know who was instrumental in the re-building, but who was the first occupier of the rebuild? I have that name bouncing around in my head and it will come to me. Campbell... ... hey I bet if you do a search on that bedlington.co.uk site you'll find out!

The origin Vicarage - was what is now known as The East Wing - goes way way back to the origins of the St Cuthberts, though it has been completely rebuilt the odd time or two. The main Vicarage (nearest the church) is relatively modern, and dates from the mid nineteenth century. The West Wing was built with the proceeds of the Glebe Lands when they were sold for coal mining for the then astronomical sum of about £2000. And yes, it was built for the vicar! See this thread: http://www.bedlingto...ch/page__st__20 One of the most amusing stories was from the time when the then vicar refused to quit when ordered to and held out for many years enjoying "the living", whilst his rival was installed at The Towers just down Church Lane. The full story is told in at least one of Evan Martin's books, and I've seen a Church pamphlet also telling this tale. Surnames of modern vicars - who have been in 20th century residence - include Purvis, Osgathorpe, and Goldie. The much respected Dr. John Brown married Eileen Purvis, and so was no stranger to the vicarage in his younger days.

Nope, I flunked the flying-saucer handling test - somewhere near the Market Place! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/521441.stm

Damn - must get that 'L' key fixed Adam! Happy birthday Ma.c!

Ah, yes: https://maps.google....t=h&mra=ls&z=17 I remember it well. The near exact spot where I almost ended up in a crumpled mass of metal some time circa 1972. The only time I momentarily lost control of an aircraft at raa..ther low-level, but even now hesitate to tell the tale...! :D The incident had nothing to do with Flodden Field as such, it just happened to be an awkward rise in quite the wrong place. I wonder if that burn to the North West is where the Scots pikemen got bogged down - which is reported to have determine the battle (and the history of England/Scotland)? BTW you can zoom in to road level from that link, if you place the little mannie first.

It's around that time we introduce a new forum on a subject of interest. Your proposals please? I think one on Astronomy (in Hobbies & Interests) will run as there seems to be a fair bit of interest amongst members, but maybe you can think of something better?

OK then I'm just running (free edition) Malwarebytes on my lappy right now after upgrading to the latest version of the database. I haven't run it for a good while; probably three or four months. Let's see how many instances of "obvious scam" it goes in for? I did run it on a friends machine only a few weeks ago and it picked up a tiny handful of certainly genuine problems on that - this friend is a known virus magnet! On the Avast front it's probably in learning mode on emails. I don't actually use it for scanning email myself as we have on on-server stuff, but I've never seen Avast report a false positive, and we run it here on several machines. I have seen it pick up genuine infections that both NAV and McAfee have missed though. As for slowing machines down, then you surely must be talking about NAV! Anyway you must give any AV a reasonable shot at doing all the initial housekeeping before declaring it a dodo. Will screen-shot the results as soon as the respective scans are finished.

First impressions on Note 3, Galaxy Gear, and Note 10.1 (2014 edition): The Note 3 looks another successful product, and with an amazing 3GB of RAM and a 2.3GH/z CPU should fly. They've put a lot of thought into the presentation too, and the textured leather back with stitching is a big differentiator from monolithic slabs with rounded corners. The Gear looks real cool and the price tag of $299 should translate into something between £200 and £249 (with VAT). A claimed 25 hour battery life is a lot better than the 10 hours that was floated (to draw the critics). It will surely sell as it has enough functionality to justify the price. Interesting though that the Samsung presentation made no mention of health and body monitoring functions - again a red-herring from Samsung internal sources. It's a partner for the Note 3 with a promise of very early compatibility with the Note 2, but no mention of earlier devices. Whether it is going to have any functionality with non-Samsung droids is still an open question. The Note 10.1 (2014 edition) is basically a scaled up Note 3, and doesn't particularly interest me in this form factor. Amazingly slim and far more powerful, it has to be a big worry for Apple and their already rapidly declining 9.7" iPad market.

The IFA 2013 live event coverage here in about two hours: http://live.cnet.com...ked_at_IFA_2013 Live Stream here: http://new.livestrea.../events/2359921

No, you simply run it again and again until your system is clear. Has never installed any "extras" on my system, but perhaps that's because I read all the install screens (except the licence agreement of course! ). If you really have got 834 other problems maybe you should pay them the mungy - or do a clean o/s install? It will generally find some annoyances that AVs will ignore, and it does have good rep which they aren't going to endanger. Have to agree with Adam, Norton is an infection in itself! Lost count of the number of times I thought I'd removed it from my system but the Symantec Updater was still clinging on in memory. The instructions on the Symantec website for the "removal tool" didn't work. I think I'm free of it now but it took hours of poking through the system files. To add insult to injury it's in the ROM of the tab I just bought and you can't remove it. I've disabled it but it's still lurking and taking up storage. Try Avast! - it's free if you play canny and don't want all the unnecessary bells and whistles. Been using it and recommending it for several years and no one has come back to me and said "bad idea" yet! BTW Avast has a Browser Cleanup Tool which removes unwanted toolbars etc.

This simply shouldn't have been necessary! As well as good AV software (not Norton/Symantec please!) it's always useful to run malwarebytes occasionally to see what might have sneakily installed that's not technically a virus. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ The freebie version of course!

Anywhere in the err... Galaxy? There seems to be no truth in the rumour that Uncle Clive is preparing to sue! http://www.ledwatche.../blackwatch.htm And... in case you've forgotten Clive's ground-breaking Wrist Calculator: http://www.vintageca...calculator.html If only this had been available some eight years earlier mankind may never have got to the moon! I've always wanted to ask him who it was who decided that the sharp corners projecting above the display were either ergonomic or durable.

Rumours of the imminent launch of the Samsung Gear smart-watch are reported confirmed by a senior Sammy executive:- http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2013/08/133_141776.html So - with the launch of the Galaxy Note 3 too - a week tomorrow will be an interesting day!

Sometimes finding a manual for your gismo on the internet can be a hard slog, and you often have to jump through hoops, suffer spam, or open your computer to virus infections in the process. Wouldn't it be nice if there was just one a one stop shop that you could navigate simply, and that didn't try to extort $$$ from you at some point? Well so far this one looks VERY promising: http://www.manualslib.com/ Did it work for you? Report back here please.

Support officially ends on 14th April 2014, but M$ will still be supporting it - if you pay! http://www.computerw...tors_picks=true Advice: XP users should give Ubuntu Linux a try. It's not a flavour of Linux I use personally but it's the one where you will get most help. And, if you recoil at C> (in Windows), it's surely the best way to go. If you don't want to fully commit just yet you can boot it from a USB stick, or even from inside your existing Windows installation whilst using the existing Windows file system. If you are buying a new machine then make sure you at least look at Chromebooks. They are incredibly good value and far easier to maintain than any Windows machine. They also have a very low cost of ownership. You are unlikely to see them feature in computer shops so don't be sold by a slick salesman on commission! It seems the latest commission driven up-sell is Symantec/Norton Anti-virus, which you shouldn't even take for free!

So the initial "Internet Honeymoon" is over, and you now realise that you've given too much of your personal information away. Or maybe you've just grown-up a bit? How do you pull back and get your account information removed from sites you never now visit? Always, of course, assuming you have the remotest idea of the data trail you've left. A couple of British lads have set out to help with an extremely simple concept: http://justdelete.me/ The buttons are colour coded to indicate the degree of difficulty you are likely to experience in getting your on-line account deleted. Maybe checking with justdelete.me before you create a new on-line account anywhere is the wisest thing to do.

Caution on this one I think - it's all politics! A Falklands style crisis would suit Cameron hugely (but it needs careful management to crescendo at the right time), and right now the Spanish lot are in deep doodoo and need a distraction from their own domestic troubles. The threats of "economic war" are laughable. Spain is in no position to wage an economic war with Bongo-bongo (a Clarkian term I use mainly to wind-up Guardianistas - as does UKIP ) let alone a major world currency. So, this is all mutually convenient. Joe Average, and Mr Floating Voter*, would do well to keep the Union Jack inside for just now, ignore the jingoism in the "popular press", and watch things develop with detached amusement. ____________ *Explanation for Guardian readers: this sexist grammar - in it's historically accepted form - implies the full, fair and non-discriminatory inclusion in the democratic process of Josephine Average and Ms Floating Voter.

A cheaped-up phone with a larger screen to be announced on 10th September say the rumours. It's interesting that this US article is bemoaning the lack of competitiveness in the US mobile space, and implies that Europe and particularly the UK is way ahead. It seems that Apple aren't going to rock the US carrier's cosy boat either by selling the 5C there. Obama's recent presidential decree to quash Samsung's patent victory against Apple whilst not intervening when the boot is on the other foot reeks of protectionism. It illustrates how introverted the US is becoming in technical matters, just as it already is in geopolitics. This is not healthy for the US.

Thanks to whoever tweaked the streaming, it's no longer distorting and now very listen able. Some great stuff, but when are we going to get it back for good? Anyway, a really really great community effort that everyone in Bedders should be pushing hard for. Congratulations to everyone involved.

Proposing a new class of member - Blockfinder General - with Maggie as #1. Keep the torture down a tiny bit please, and ensure you cut the nude scenes from the Bedlington release!

Pity they didn't ask about Balls. Quite how the architect of the current economic disaster is being offered up as our next chancellor never ceases to amaze me. It's like proposing Harold Shipman for treasurer of an old peoples trust. At least Gordo did the decent thing and crawled off into well-deserved obscurity. Either Labour think their voters have extremely short memories or they have a very very low opinion of their intelligence. ...and Cameron is by far the most popular leader - god help us! Maybe we need a US-type presidential system where the leader of the opposition can become PM? What do you think?

It could have been more convincing without the Aussie accent!

So, really, Uncle Clive's 21st century try was only slightly ahead of his time? www.envirotech.com.co This one is rather expensive, but there are some interesting performance electric scooters/bikes (800w-1Kw/h) now coming onto the market for not a great deal more than a half-decent push bike. Unfortunately it's highly likely that they aren't at all road legal. Want, anyway! I like the off-road bit here at about 4:00, you wouldn't get away with that on a noisy motorbike. It rather looks like the braking system puts some energy back into the battery.