Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Changing gear. Two weeks ago my NAS started to die. One of the two
Category: Stuff
Blogathon 23/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… No, I’m Spartacus. My name, is Michael Caine. You say tomato, I say tomato.
Blogathon 22/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Nice out, innit? It has, from what I could tell from looking through the
Blogathon 21/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Missing. Our cats come and go as they please. The cat-flap is tuned to
Blogathon 20/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Grow you own. Pick you own. Be yourself. Have it your own way. You
Blogathon 19/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… The Internet plus computers = real-time information and instant transactions/updates. It’s lovely. We take
Blogathon 18/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… It’s ironic that the weather, today, has been gorgeous, but the weather all weekend
Blogathon 17/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Get ahead, get a hat. In 1965, in response to declining sales, those cunning
Blogathon 16/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… The male condition plus ageing brings strange things to our bodies. Middle-aged spread. A
Blogathon 15/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Regular readers (Hello Mum!) might remember that Plusnet and I have been together for
Blogathon 14/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Now you know that I like a drink, right? No, not that sort of
Blogathon 13/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… So. I went to Weybridge today. Weybridge, for those who don’t know, is dahn
Blogathon 12/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… At about 5.45am tomorrow I will be setting out for Weybridge, the Paris of
Blogathon 11/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… The subject of today’s photograph of an everyday object is commonly called a sack
Blogathon 10/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Stable management (not as in keeping everything shipshape and Bristol fashion) is a widely-encompassing
Blogathon 09/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Electronic data, in all of its forms? A good thing? A bad thing? A
Blogathon 08/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who in this land is fairest of all? (as
Blogathon 07/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… There is a device that has been the cause of disagreements, rows, arguments, and
Blogathon 06/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… Sometime in the future, an academic who has spent many years tucked away in
Blogathon 05/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… There is a device that has been the cause of disagreements, rows, arguments, and
Blogathon 04/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… You remember the big rage for designer this and designer that? Designer shoes, designer
Blogathon 03/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… A wiser person than me once said* ‘The smell under your nose is what
Blogathon 02/18
Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens… ‘Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition’, as Monty Python said of, erm, the Spanish Inquisition.
Blogathon 01/18
Today will never happen again. It’s a moment in time that is passing in to history, never to be repeated. Events have occurred today, somewhere
Feeling a bit bloggy
So. It’s nearly June. And for the last couple (of Junes) I’ve done a Blogathon thing. For charity, mate. And a couple of nice people
Nothing on the telly
I can’t remember the last time I watched television. I mean terrestrial TV. BBC1, BBC2, ITV (whatever number), Channel 4, Channel 5. I really can’t
Two wheels on my wagon
That’s an odd word. Wagon. Or is it ‘waggon’? Maybe it’s either. Or neither Or both Anyway. Despite a significant hiatus in the blogging, rumours
Total Recall
When we got back from Vietnam a small mountain of mail was neatly stacked (by the cat-sitter), awaiting attention. In my pile was an automatic
Insane in the membrane
Here’a an interesting list of reasons for committal to an insane asylum (except we don’t call them that any more) from 1864 – 1889. I
Family motoring (Hanoi style)
I went for an extended walk this morning. About an hour into my attempt to find a local museum, I discovered that the map the
Blogathon: 28/18
There was a slight air of panic when we couldn’t find the large suitcases (they were in the loft), but I’m about to go upstairs
Blogathon: 27/18
As I write this (19.43 Tuesday evening) it is minus 4c in Nottinghamshire and trying to snow. Again. As I write this it is 03.04
Blogathon: 26/18
We are watching Game of Thrones (or GoT as we cognoscenti call it). Well yes, we’re only on S1 E4, but that’s hardly the point.
Blogathon: 25/18
We have new bicycles! Sam uses hers to occasionally commute to work, but apart from a very brief lap of the neighbourhood, I haven’t used
Blogathon: 24/18
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Within 35 minutes of landing back at base, from the frozen wastes of Brighton,
Blogathon: 23/18
In a tiny alleyway in The Lanes in Brighton, I stumbled upon a Treasure Trove of book-related goodness. I became a fan of PKDs writing
Blogathon 22/18
We are in Brighton! If the photo needs mucking about with, I’ll do it when I get home. The phone is a less than perfect
Blogathon: 21/18
As I type this I am in a car. It is Wednesday evening, just gone 19.15, and we are speeding (in a not breaking the
Blogathon: 20/18
I don’t want you to think I’ve run out of imagination or owt, but the only thing I have to blog about is my health.
Blogathon: 19/18
I enjoy a bit of a quiz. Monday evenings tend to have a lump of frenetic mental energy from 8-9pm. Only Connect followed by Universally Challenged
Blogathon: 18/18
I really need to be better organised and get on top of these earlier in the day. Anyway. In which I don’t mention being on
Blogathon: 17/18
Diet Sensation! Guaranteed To Lose Weight Every Time! This new Scientifically Verified, Easy To Use Weight Loss System guarantees that you – yes you –
Blogathon: 16/18
Galactic struggles. I don’t do ‘doing nothing’ and being very unwell, and confined to no more than ten very rapid paces from the toilet (which
Blogathon: 15/18
Counting out time This arises from a conversation downstairs earlier. I am still crook. The Department of the Dead and Dying haven’t been out to
Blogathon: 14/18
Crook. I have been advised to keep this ‘detail light’ which, given that I am typing this on my phone, I should find very easy.
Blogathon: 13/18
Hearing voices… ‘Choir! Choir! Choir!’ is a singing collective that was started by Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman. Based in Toronto, Canada, These two guys
Blogathon: 12/18
Last month (five weeks ago, to be precise) I carried out a decision I (we) made in the late summer last year. I resigned from
Blogathon: 11/18
I have been a loyal and faithful customer of Plusnet (aka BT), for more than 12 years. Through four house moves, over those dozen years,
Blogathon: 9/18
It was brought home to me, a couple of weeks ago, just how old I am. Why’s that? (I hear you ask). Well I’ll tell