Tuesday January 5 at the Crown & Greyhound

It was a dark and snowy night... but the fire roared and the company was warm. Bob Schweizer reported his first greetings card picture sale: cider bottles in Normandy - expect a birthday card this year. Rose Shepherd produced a feature article from The Times about a Vietnam draft dodger (Bob), whose experience had echoes of Guantánamo. Shocking stuff. Chris Clack explained how painters such as Cézanne showed how our two eyes see something quite different from the one eye of a camera. And Angie Macdonald, an Eng Lit graduate, confessed to a weakness for instruction manuals, which explains her competence in web building. She recommends the Missing Manuals series ("the book that should have been in the box") as helpful for understanding various systems and applications. She also recommended cloud-based dropbox, a free 2Gb cross-platform application to store, share and sync files, which gets around email attachments, memory sticks and other backups. It's good and simple and efficient and works with both PCs and Macs.

• Steve Overbury's recollections of wild times in the Castle in Crystal Palace Road (see Dulwich on View) must make the pub a contender as a Groucho venue.