Rain-mates! At last!
For all the many hundreds of people who’ve come across my site because of my posts about rain-mates this is for you: Bubble Betty™, “a vintage product brought back to…
Snow and rainmates
Since installing some site-stats software on my blog, I’ve been able to see how and why people end up at my site: by checking out the stats page, I can…
Rainmates and Coconut Scrapers revisited
Not a lot of people leave comments on my site; in fact, hardly anyone. So I know that I must have hit on a topic of real concern to the…
The Rain-mate revisited
Little did I know, when Christopher Hampson and I went in search of the rain-mate 8 years ago (see this old entry), that of all the blog topics that might…
Who makes rain-mates?
This rain-mate business (see below) is beginning to really bother me. How could something that helped define a generation just disappear, or rather, not appear at all on the net?…
Theremins and Shoppoleths
I am the first person to celebrate the wonderfulness of the web, and the fact that you can buy almost anything from anywhere at the touch of a button, but…