Further confessions of a font addict....

A couple of links for the similarly afflicted

Create a font using your own handwriting....assuming you have a printer and scanner available. Download the template, print it, fill in the characters you want to create, scan and upload...and a couple of minutes later your font is available to download and install....very nice....oh, and did I mention it's free?

Link to YourFonts

Now, how about using a bit less ink? Download and install this free font, use it as your default, and save on your printing bills. Added bonus, you're doing your bit for the planet!

"After Dutch holey cheese, there is now a Dutch font with holes as well"
Ecofont

Where on earth am I?

Well, Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm I'm precisely here. MyGeoPosition.com does the number crunching, you just drag the marker.

Newcastle's alternative drinking guide

The Burglars Dog just can't be bettered for that 'grumpy old man' take on a local pub review (but don't click if you're easily offended by serial expletives!)

Things to do with spuds

Now that Anne and John are well into the potato harvest, Agence Eureka has come up with a handy worksheet giving sensible suggestions for things to make when they get fed up with eating mash.

Cloud cover

The UK as at 9.30am, Saturday 21st June......Check out what weather is coming your way at the Clouds map at DaylightMap (data updated hourly)

LATER....The clouds should have been painted blacker..it's peeing down! (2.45pm)

Sensible Units.....

....does what it says on the tin.

Link to Sensible Units

How noisy is my house?

.....UK only, and not everywhere (areas covered Birkenhead, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Preston, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton, Southend, Teeside, The Potteries, Tyneside, West Midlands, West Yorkshire)

.....and it looks like I've got it relatively quiet (thought no-one came to check the decibel rating of the clockwork timer on the central heating, I suspect there might have been a purple splodge on the map if they had!) Check out whether it's time to buy a pair of industrial strength ear mufflers here