The Car-free Life…

A few years ago, following my first cycling trip up and around Scotland, I decided to part company with my car. I blogged about this at the time.
The reasons were various and included the fact that the car I owned wasn’t long for the world – it was showing its age in some places out of sight and, as expected, only survived for one more year (I assume due to corrosion). [Click here to continue reading this topic]

Uncama’s Adventure [in Wonderland]

On page 4969 (in volume 7) of Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia is a collection of short “stories told to Kaffir children”. Included is “Uncama’s Adventure”:

Uncama was a bold hunter, and, finding that a strange animal came every night to his garden and rooted up his plants, he lay in wait for it and pursued it. The strange animal ran down a great hole by the side of a river, and Uncama followed it, and entered a wonderful country underneath the Earth. [Click here to continue reading]

Ubuntu Printer Stopped after upgrade to 18.04

It seemed that after I had upgraded my Ubuntu system from 16.04 to 18.04 my Epson printer would no longer print. I would send something to print and a message would appear at the top of the screen “Printing Stopped”. The document would be stuck in the queue as “Stopped”.
I searched online and discovered many other people had experienced similar problems following the upgrade. Suggestions I found did not work for me. [Click here to read my solution]