Semi-retired Internet geek living with my wife and dog in Nairn, Scotland.
I'm also the #SNP councillor for #Nairn & #Cawdor but I generally post about that as @paul.nairn.scot
More here https://about.me/TallPaul
Paul Oldham
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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
Locally I would add to this:
• Mikeysline - oursupport.mikeysline.co.uk
• James Support Group - jamessupportgroup.com
Remember: it's OK not to be OK.
As of lunchtime today this EDM has now been signed by 89 MPs, including my own @grahamleadbitter.bsky.social so thank you for him for doing that. But we've still got another five hundred plus to get on board so contact your MP today.
I've been blethering on about books again. The #FolioSociety this time.
aboutabook.uk/about-the-fo...
#books #blog
Three MPs signed it and then withdrew, all Lib Dem: Tim Farron, Andrew George, and Monica Harding. If they're your MP you might want to ask why ...
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
After a long pause (council work has kept me very busy) my book blog is back. This time talking about two books in 'About some dams'.
aboutabook.uk/about-some-d...
#books #NOSHEB
Very excited to hear today that my #Pebble Time 2 is finally on its way to me.
The Time 2 has a bigger screen, better battery life, heart rate monitor, two microphones, speaker, compass, and a touch screen but still has those four buttons we all loved.
Order yourself one here repebble.com
I've been writing about #books again, this time about Manderley Press and also a little about @tomgauld.bsky.social
aboutabook.uk/about-2/
Dr Husam Zomlot speaks at 2025 #SNP Conference
fediverse.tv/w/hTvaNRuKHF...
#Palestine
I've been interested in the Folio Society since back in the day when I subscribed to the now long dead Punch magazine and it carried adverts for the society, which was then a book club.
Book clubs se...
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
edm.parliament.uk
Paul Oldham
Paul Oldham
Paul Oldham
I've recently finished Emma Wood's book "The Hydro Boys: Pioneers of Renewable Energy". It's her examination of the Scottish hydro-electric power schemes and reading it provided an interesting contras...
As I've remarked before one of the things I like about reading is the part serendipity plays and, like Persephone Books, my discovery of Manderley Press came about that way too. In this case it was be...
