Something will go here one day soon...Gaiety, merriment and dancing, etc.

Regular visitors here will have noticed the refurbishment is taking longer than expected.  This is mainly due to me getting very hooked on tracing my family history, which seems to have more skeletons than a medieval plague pit, and as many black sheep as a farm with several black sheep. 

Read about it here.

As of Autumn 2016 I am totally revamping this site.  I am trying to do it as inconspicuously as possible (like motorway contractors do their job...)  Expect having to use the hard shoulder, central reservation and to change lanes frequently.  Try not to knock over the millions of warning cones.  If all else fails, you’ll end up on the old error page.  There’ll be dust everywhere, and lots of typeface changes.  It’ll be a long job, and I’m also trying to learn how to use Net Objects Fusion 12, the design software at the same time.  My project management system is "Erratic Structured Randomness, v3.5b (Rev 4)”.  Think of navigating this site as being like Dungeons and Dragons, but with more scary bits.

I welcome comments, feedback, errors and suggestions.  Contact me.

Homepage - Puzzles Too - What we’ve been up to - Music - About Me & Al - Misc

Teddington - My Films - Pictures - Links - Puzzles - Credits etc. - Homepage

What we’ve been up to.  A record of our older adventures:

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008 Part Two
• 2008 Part One
• 2007 Part Two
• 2007 Part One
• 2006 Part Two
• 2006 Part One
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• Our previous Xmas letters, The Watson-Laird Gazette
• Xmas 2011
• Xmas 2010
• Xmas 2009
• Xmas 2008
• Xmas 2007
• Xmas 2006
• Xmas 2005
• Xmas 2004
• Xmas 2003
• Xmas 2002
• Xmas 1999

About Me & Al

• Martin - A potty biography
• Contact us - How to send us an email
• About Alice - Everything you wanted to know
• Over Surtees Club - Martin’s Old School Club
• Geocaching - Our walking and map-reading hobby
• Kempton Nature Reserve Our nearest faraway place
• Comment
• A Scary Thought
• Martin in the Media
• Birding Year List 2009
• The Old Gits Diary - A record of what friends can’t remember

Teddington

• Diary - What’s new in Teddington
• The Town - A look around Teddington
• Bushy & Home Parks - Our nearby Royal Parks
• 1894 Teddington Maps - How life was 100 years ago
• Teddington Links - Other Teddington sites
• Memories of Teddington - A residents memories

Pictures

• Holidays
• Friends
• My Favourites
• Family
• Pictures of me
• Birds & Wildlife
• Events
• Mathematical Pictures

Puzzles - My Number One activity, mechanical puzzles!!

• Puzzle News - Anything new to do with puzzles
• My Designs - My attempts to contribute
• My Collection on Flickr - Pictures of my Collection
• London Monthly Puzzle Party - A Monthly Gathering
• Puzzle of the Month - A detailed look at some puzzles
• Prague Puzzles - Puzzles from the Czech Republic
• Prague Puzzle Shops - from the Czech Republic
• Miscellaneous Puzzle Stuff - Like it says
• Puzzle Suppliers - A few places to get your own
• Mailbag - Letters to the website, and my replies
• Puzzle Bags - What puzzles to have with you to entertain...
• Puzzling People - Weird Puzzlers, or some of them at least

Puzzles Too - More and more puzzle stuff

• Conversion kits - How to enthuse new converts
• Classics - The ones we had as children
• Modern Classics - The ones your children will remember
• Desert Island Puzzles - Ones to take on long holidays
• Coffee-table Puzzles - The large elegant ones to display
• Influences - The people who helped me
• POV-RAY images of puzzles - Computer-genertaed images
• Tetrominoes - Ways 4 squares can be stuck together
• Recreational mathematics - What started me off as a child
• Sale & Trade - A few duplicates
• Free Puzzles - Which bit don’t you understand?

Music - My Other Great Love

• Great Gigs of My Life - Some memorable nights out...
• More Great Gigs
• Further great Gigs
• Gigs I Missed - The ones I wished I’d been to
• Music Diary - News
• On The Turntable Now - A look at what I’m listening to.
• Martin’s Jukebox - One or two favourites

Miscellaneous - The bits that don’t fit elsewhere

My Films - Links to my YouTube contributions

Links - There is life outside of this site

Credits etc. Software and services we use.

I started this web site in about 1998.  As of Autumn 2016 it is getting its biggest ever refurbishment. 

My goals are to include more current information, more pictures, no dead links, consistent format and typeface, better readability on more screens, and to get rid of characters that display badly.  But no free beer.

It is a bit untidy and experimental ...but just wait...

Text first, then pictures to be replaced.

Then the missing links.