Good luck with that! I'm sure Wiltshire will be missing your emails, so next time they send me something in a proprietory format...

I've only just moved to Bath, and I'm already being an annoying free software weirdo! Here's my email to Bath & North East Somerset Council:

Hi, please find attached my Direct Debit form for my Council Tax.

I noticed that the form was in the MS-Word format. Unfortunately this is a …

This the first evening that I moved in. Helen and Toby were staying with me for a couple of days. We watched an episode of House and had some Bailey's. It was really cold, and I hadn't worked out the heating properly, so we were bundled up in blankets and …

I find it difficult to throw things out. This first photo is of a wind-up radio that my parents gave me years ago. It's been broken for ages but I couldn't bring myself to throw it out because it's one of the few things that connects me with my mother …

On 4th Feb I moved in to the new house in Bath. I took some photos as soon as I arrived:

Western end of downstairs main room

Eastern end of downstairs main room

Door to the outside on the right, and door to cupboard on the left

Door to downstairs …

This is how Louisa at work peels a satsuma.

When the train is full to overflowing, I send off a letter to the Department for Transport. Here's one of their replies:

27 January 2012 Dear Mr Locke, Thank you for your email of 10 December 2011 to General Enquiries at the DfT about your journeys from Trowbridge to Bath …

Before meeting the others at the Boater, Bill and I went so have a look at the field of lights.

Quite alien.

I had a look at the Taxpayers' Alliance report Ending The Green Rip-Off. It seems to advocate removing subsidies for renewable energy. I agree, but at the same time the subsidies for all types of energy should be removed too. The report says:

it seems very reasonable to expect that …

Have you seen Sintel? Apart from being an excellent short animated film, it's licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. That means that it's an Open Source film, nobody holds a monopoly over it. I hope and expect that this type of licensing will become more popular, as it has …