TMA08: The Sixties TMA08 is an interdisciplinary assignment relating to Block 6. When you have completed it, please send it to your tutor to arrive
Year: 2008
Losing the will to live now
TV advert. What channel is this particular episode of Friends on Soph? E4+1. Right, so we’re watching E4+1 and there was just a phony TV
Later the same day…
I detached myself from The Lovely S and hurled myself out of bed in an unexpectedly sudden burst of energy. Brushed teeth, dressed and left
There are more questions than answers
It is mid-morning Sunday and The Lovely S and I are in bed. She is watching Hollyoaks and I’m doing internetty things. The debris of
This Reality – Podcast No 6
Episode 6 (33 minutes running time). No contributions from other realities this week (shame on you folks! 🙂 ). Introductions from Citronella and The Podfather
Breaking the pattern
So… Why would a woman completely change the pattern and style of her dress? Every working day for the last eight months she’s worn a
A foggy day
The drive down the M5 this morning made me laugh. The weather in this part of the world was foggy. Very foggy. Thick, thick, thick
Clever people
Gah! Love ’em? Hate ’em? Still got to admire ’em, right? So there’s a guy at work. He’s not particularly clever at work though. Hey!
Blogging at work
(this is a legitimate work post, honest!) As part of a much wider collaborative tools trial I’ve created a WordPress environment at work. We’re using
Eat them all up, they’re good for you!
So… The contents of a half-pound bag of chocolate-coated raisins. That counts towards my five-a-day. Right? B.
Morningtime blues
I don’t know why. It just is. Anyway the tuned-to-my-mental-state-iPod served this up: The River, by Breed 77 from the album Cultura In the morning
Abbey again
Do you remember that little incident I had with Abbey (or Abbey National)? The case of them sending me account statements and then a credit
That’s a relief
I have found a new use for the McDonald’s at the Droitwich M5 exit. It’s the perfect distance from Swindon for me to stop. I
Sunday evening weekend review
How was your weekend? You’ve either had an active or an inactive weekend? Or maybe you’ve had a weekend where bouts of activity were mixed
This Reality – Podcast No 5
Episode 5 (31 minutes running time). This week we have a lovely contribution from an overseas correspondent who tells us of a number of things
And another thing…
Chocolate. Why, when I am unwell with, ahem, a stomach complaint, am I filled with a craving for chocolate (which, contrary to anything Soph might
And there’s another thing…
Why is it that when one invariably wakes from slumber in the bed of sickness, the first thing one wants to do is ring the
And there’s a thing…
Colonic irrigation. WTF? Someone sticks a hosepipe up your bum and for that you pay them money? There’s people out there would pay money to
Schooling…
After all the show jumping we’ve done lately, I chose to give Vin a hefty dose of flatwork schooling on Wednesday evening. How brilliant it
It’s now time to punish the parents
14-year-old Brendan Harris attacked, kicked and killed Sophie Lancaster in a park in Lancashire; he was drunk at the time. He was joined in his
‘Ello? Yeah, it’s me. I’m on the ‘plane
The news that Ofcom has approved the use of mobile telephones on aeroplanes fills me with dread. In the UK we laugh when comedians (cf
In regione caecorum rex est luscus
When Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536) wrote “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King” [Adagia (III, IV, 96)] his simple statement
Tiscali, they’re really really shit
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Not just semantics
There are expressions which, when used in different – perhaps less ‘mainstream’ walks of life – that take on different shades of understanding. It is
Really scary stuff
I don’t know whether I’m in conspiracy theory mode or if I’m just pointing out a very peculiar product but… There’s a toothbrush on the
OU and podcast query
A public answer to a private email from a non-broadband internet user… Should the podcast go in to detailed discussion of OU-related activities, it would
This Reality – Podcast No 4
Danger – bad words lurk herein! The ‘Explicit’ tag has finally been switched on. Episode 4 (30 minutes running time): I’m feeling creative! And are
Basking in the glory of others
It’s 21.21 (ah, such numerical synchronicity!) Good Friday evening, there’s pants on the television but that’s OK because earlier we went to the cinema and
Today I have learned that
This blog’s number one search term for the month of February (with a staggering average of 200 googles per day) is the word ‘dogging’ I
So farewell then…
Arthur C Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Expedition to Earth, Rendezvous with Rama, Childhood’s End, The Fountains of Paradise, Of Time and Stars, Imperial Earth,
A hairy situation
Standing in the queue for a coffee this morning, I couldn’t help noticing that the blonde woman in front of me wore her hair in
Got the Abbey Habit
It used to be be an advertising slogan that the Abbey National Building Society used. I remember it well. The accompanying logo was a cartoon
This Reality – Podcast No 3
Episode 3 – the new format on the mixing desk is revamped. All we have to do now is lose the nerves! But the gap-decreasing
Show jumping (or what it nearly looked like)
Saturday, Lincomb, Mandy Kent show jumping clinic. The good news was that for a bunch of reasons I didn’t know about, there were only two
Show jumping tomorrow, maybe
Yesterday morning Vin got shod. This evening I fetched him in. Sadly he had only three shoes on and was hopping lame on the hoof
Make the punishment fit the crime
Today at Canock Magistrates court 19-year-old Mathew Corfield of Higgs Road, Wednesbury was sentenced to five month’s custody in a Young Offender’s Institution. Some months
Today I shall mostly be
Productive and scruffy. In that order. I am working at home (yes I know it’s now 18.06, and I’m blogging but I’m just having a
Vin the superstar
Yesterday evening Vin and I had a lesson with Jo. It’s been six weeks since her last visit, she gave me a load of homework
They did it in full public view!
Up on top of the Cotswolds, beside the A417 dual carriageway, there is a top secret (British) military establishment. Not a place with lots of
Meaning what, precisely?
So Adele’s off out chasing pavements, eh? And people are walking around, digging her song, singing the words, eh? I wonder if they still would
In need of a fix
This evening I have a mild case of the shakes. A minor anxiety attack. I left my iPod on my desk and can’t get back
15 hours or 15 minutes
It’s 22.55 and that’s how long I’ve been asleep – 15 hours or 15 minutes. We came to bed, the lovely S and I, to
Competing again
Fresh from our success with Matt Ryan last Sunday, on a fit of upness I entered a couple of dressage tests at Allenshill. I love
CSI Worcestershire!
CSI being an acronym for Common Sense Initiative, not something else you may have heard of… They’re out to get me. The drongos. The thick,
This Reality – Podcast No 2
Adam Curry’s intro (I really should get his ‘OK’) to ‘crowd gasp’ Incoming email traffic to the podcast Welsh Humour Podcast stats Podcast Admin: Feel
Food for thought
The office in-house caterer has gone ‘healthy’. I’ve moaned about the lack of chips and baked beans on the daily menu to so many of
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