We have pulled out the stops to bring you four cross-genre works of musical art wrapped up in this week’s This Reality Podcast: The power-chord
Month: February 2010
The shortest distance between two points
is not necessarily a straight line… A little later than planned, we set off from the stables at 7am, Tom and Twiglet noshing on their
Barely surviving
We are watching the final episode in season 2 of the BBC’s newest comedy series ‘Survivors’. I haven’t laughed so much since the first time
Testing times
I was trying to explain, to a person whose knowledge of horses is limited to ‘big, bites and kicks’, what is involved in learning and
The air is blue, not only on Pandora*
I have just finished *pouring* my soul in to a shortish, emotional but (even if I say it myself) pretty bloody well-written piece about ‘health’.
An open letter to BT Broadband
*edit added on 6th February 2011 – one year later – below* Dear BT Broadband, 1. When I called you last week and said I
What’s in a name?
I didn’t go back to bed. I stayed downstairs, got side-tracked by an episode of Top Gear and then switched off the TV and worked
Back to bed
Today’s planned trip up to Swalcliffe Park for cross-country schooling has been cancelled: Snow stopped play. The roads were extremely dangerous when I left home
We’re going out. No we’re not…
We were going to the cinema to see The Lovely Bones this evening. But Soph, who wants to see the film, has decided she’d like
Staying focussed, but not too focussed…
I’ve been neglecting Tom-related posts because there’s been other things happening. You know how it is. Life gets in the way… So, this weekend William
A sad loss
However people choose to look at the man and what he has or has not achieved, today’s passing of former champion jockey, Dick Francis, will
Feed reader question
… because these days we’re all using Web2.0 technology to read websites, right? I have dumped Bloglines as my Web v2.0 Reader Of Choice. See
Is the BBC news department staffed by stupids?
This story from BBC News online says it all really. Well, the headline says far more than the content below it. Expenses body to cost
Listen up, fuckwits
You know who you are. Drivers on the M40 motorway – through Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire , that’s who. Or ‘bad drivers on the M40’ might
On having another go
Fresh from our awful appearance at Hartpury’s JAS (show-jumping and simulated cross-country) competition last Saturday, and fully recovered from all of the aches and pains
I am cooking
I am cooking. In the kitchen, obv. In fact I’ve just twittered that, with an accompanying photo. Because I’m weird. Obv. Soph has declined my