Episode 14 (29 minutes running time) It’s Saturday morning in rural Worcestershire and… Citronella and Adam Curry do some – back to normal! Yay! –
Month: May 2008
Easing out gently
And so my project in Swindon begins to take on twilight properties as things draw to a natural conclusion. It’s difficult to write about work
The heady heady shake
Schooling Vin this evening was both not good and very good. Flatwork. Within 15 minutes of commencing work he started headshaking. And the problem grew.
Abbey, the final chapter
Regulars will remember that we’ve had ongoing situations with Abbey National (details here and here). The purpose of this post is to bring you the
Not a travelogue
Welcome to the world of hotness Stone me, it’s warm out there. No, really. Humid-hot. The kind of humidity I’d expect in Hong Kong –
On the move
This is major freaky. I’m sitting on the train – not the one I’d planned. Not the one I’d planned because Chiltern Trains decided I
This is just rubbish
Monday afternoon, end of May. It feels and looks like a wet Sunday afternoon in the middle of Winter. It hasn’t stopped raining all bloody
Sunday evening closing down
And now to bed. It’s been a fun-packed, action-filled evening. Soph’s dillied and dallied her way through an essay prep. I’ve dozed my way through
Sunday afternoon catching up
It’s a Bank Holiday weekend, no work for us tomorrow, but this Sunday evening still has that ‘back to school’ feel about it. Fair enough.
The laptop
Wow. An entire podcast about interesting stuff and three – three – emails asking about the spec of the laptop. Well OK. It’s a Dell
Eurodoo-dah
If there is any justice in the world the winner of the 2008 Eurovision Song Competition should be France. It’s a brilliant song and sound
Getting dragged out
So. It’s 16.42 (the time, not the year). We’re sitting on the couch, the Lovely Soph and I. She’s marking time and I’m determined not
This Reality – Podcast No 13
Episode 13 (28 minutes running time) It’s Saturday morning in Studio K and… Citronella and Adam Curry do some very ghostly, otherworldly introductions to Episode
Oh and by the way
I’m sitting here watching The Pink Floyd Story on BBC Four. Feeling so emotional. What a dweeb. B.
Tagged and bagged
I’ve been tagged by Welcome to the World of the Bionic Yoghurt, durn it. Didn’t she know I was about to go upstairs and have
D.I.D (a musical meme)
Harry said… Given your love of music and your admiration for Nick Hornby, I would be intrigued to see your Desert Island selection. If you’re
Now that’s just cruel
I took this pic in West Swindon on the way home. So. As if the gradual defacing (the ‘Y’ is being painted over on a
Early morning TV conversation
Soph: Hey! Do you want to watch The Tweenies? Bren: No, I don’t have a thing for Fizz any more; I’m over it now. B.
Poxy bloody wanking fucking awful drivers
I was going to blow off steam. You really wouldn’t believe the standard of driving I saw on the way to the yard this evening.
Sunday evening 19.47
The time, not the year… It’s been a day. We slept clinging to each other, as though we were survivors of a shipwreck, bobbing adrift
10.00 Sunday
Currently watching Hollyoaks (WTF?). Can’t believe Zack pulled a stunner and had a one-night stand with her. Can’t believe the morning after Zack said she
This Reality – Podcast No 12
Episode 12 (31 minutes running time) It’s Saturday morning in Studio K (the kitchen) and… Citronella and Adam Curry do the introductions to a very
Little bit tiddly
Earlier a small group of us were invited to a meeting room where champagne, strawberries and chunks of chocolate fudge brownies and/or(!) caramel slices were
Brwydr gyfreithiol am dystlythyr
Roedd Christine Laird yn arfer gweithio i Gyngor Rhondda Cynon Taf Mae’n bosib y gallai un o gynghorau Cymru wynebu talu cannoedd o filoedd o
Psssst, want a quick photo opp?
Here’s a cautionary tale. Most of us take photographs. Most of us have Flickr (or some other webservice) accounts where we stuff up the pics
Today’s earworm
I shall shortly be going in to a meeting with this pounding in my head: I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier I’ve got
International lingua franca
While I was tinkering with the previous post I wrote ‘United States’ in Spanish: Estados Unidos. Which would be correctly abbreviated to ‘EU’. And ‘EU’
Google Maps ofrece a los fisgones un arsenal ilimitado de imágenes
Casi todos los hombres se hurgan la nariz, casi todas las mujeres llevan biquini y casi todas las parejas, hasta las peor avenidas, se han
Paradise lost?
Lord Dholakia has put a well-written piece over on Lords of the Blog about The Maldives. Stand by for a memory… I was briefly stationed
Podcast news
Format 1: This Reality had a request some time ago from cha0tic to put chapter breaks in to the podcast (so he could skip past
I need help
Some people have been saying this for years! I’ve decided that I need paid help; the admin demands are killing what little time I have
And the next competition is…
And the next competition is another 2-phase, Monday evening at Lincomb; 2’9″. Suddenly it’s only three and a half weeks until our first BE One
Damn it’s hot
The heat, the flies, the drums, the heat, the flies, the drums. Don’t the natives ever stop beating those drums Daphne? Oh. That’s a chav
The other side to the weekend
The other side to the weekend was spent fixing my bloody iPod. Mid-week it stopped behaving as it should. The registry/index somehow broke down; when
The two-phase
I’ve done this in a kind of Twitteresque way… 05.15 Just leaving the house to get ready for today’s 2-Phase competition. So nervous breakfast tasted
This Reality – Podcast No 11
Episode 11 (29 minutes running time) It’s Saturday morning in Studio K (the kitchen) and… Citronella and Adam Curry do the introductions to Episode 11
It’s the weekend!
Yay! Tomorrow we’re taking the in-laws to lunch. Then we’re going to Sapey, Herefordshire, to walk the track for Sunday’s Mercian Teams two-phase competition. Our
SwindonSpeak
SwindonSpeak, it’s a little like a 21st Century version of Orwell’s Newspeak as outlined in his work 1984. Here’s a snippet of overhearing that fell
Equine news and the wrong kind of scent?
Yesterday evening Big Vin and I hacked around the headlands of a bunch of fields with the girls (Tracey and her chestnut mare Charlie). It
The Apprentice (no Sorcerer in sight) BBC1, 21.00
Holy Bloody Hell. These people are supposed to be bright? They’re chasing a low six-figure salary? This evening we have two teams of candidates running
Dubious Deal, Soph and I stay home
Kind of like one of those Malory Towers books – or even something by Christine Pullein-Thompson, or the far more saccharine ‘Jill’ books (Jill has
This Reality – Podcast No 10
Episode 10 (31 minutes running time) It’s early Sunday morning in Studio K (the kitchen) and… Citronella and Adam Curry do the introductions to Episode
Scientific collaboration
Here’s a thing that’s crept on to my RADAR (viewed through the eyes of my ‘collaborative tools’ project). There are a number of these scientific
The big Six-Oh!
Yes! Come on!!!! Cracked it and feeeeeeeeeling good! Sixty point two (that’s 60.2)Â miles to the gallon. I filled up in Swindon on Friday evening,