ALAS, POOR PLYMOUTH, BUT PARIS CONTINUES! Martin our founder is released into an unsuspecting world after over two years of confinement, and is keen to tell everyone all about his and Andrew Hill’s LED exploits! FREE AGAIN! Yes, slowly but…
DORNRÖSCHEN IS WAKING UP! And the Union flag that she is flying is the European one, with quite a lot having gone on during her Covid-induced sleep Yes, it does really feel like that we’ve all been asleep for a…
Mister Spock meets Doctor Strangelove! Just in case these two phrases in the title aren’t recognised, the first is supposedly from Star Trek, and the second is the continuation of the full title of Stanley Kubrick’s tale of accidental nuclear…
I’ve long felt a slight kinship with Kurt Vonnegut’s character Winston Niles Rumfoord from his “The Sirens of Titan” novel, who one day had the slight misfortune of “running his private space ship right into the heart of an uncharted…
CAIRNLAND IS CARRYING ON! You may well have been fortunate enough to miss Our Chairman Martin’s “Cairnland” [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] satirical spoofs over the last few years, in which we announced that our 70 acre farm just outside…
SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH! ….Or as the UK prepares to leave the EU, Martin (at least in his heart and mind) prepares to leave the UK. Just in case anyone doesn’t recognise the words of the…
MARTIN’S CHRISTMAS SPEECH 2019 Since Christmas is traditionally a time of goodwill, this is when we let our founder and Chairman Martin out of his solitary confinement for a few hours, so that he can attend our annual dinner and…
At Last, the REAL Story About the Origins of Cairn! In these blogs I’ve tried to tell, in a piecemeal kind of way, the story of how Cairn came into being, and in particular how our beginnings have allowed us…
The title for this blog was originally going to be “The First Thirty Years Were The Worst” until I realised that I’d already used that one in 2015! In case you doubt my sanity (although that’s a questionable issue in…
Special Introductory Offer on our Consultancy Rates But first of all, if you are an existing or potential Cairn customer, there is no need to worry. We’ve always been happy to give free and no-obligation advice on any of our…
