Magnon's Meanderings

  I was just reading that the 60's Gangland Boss, Eddie Richardson, who masterminded 'The Torture Gang', has recently died. Rich...

It's been a strange summer on many fronts, mostly due to the very high temperatures, and the lack of rain. This has had a hugely detrime...

OK, this picture might be a rose-tinted vision of an England in earlier times, but it's very much how I remember my native Surrey villag...

  Recently we were 11; now we are 2. The family are now all back at their various homes (or very nearly). The Cherub (above), his big brothe...

Ever since I built our pool's 'Pump House', I knew there was something about it that wasn't quite right. I had copied the lo...

I've always been a bit wary of buying fresh Octopus or Giant Squid. I'm not confident about cooking it, and always fear that I might...

I'm not going to say that I don't like hot, sunny, weather; because that would be untrue. But what I really don't enjoy are the ...