Weekend stuff
It has to be a really early bed this evening. We need to be at Birmingham airport for an 06.30 check-in and an 08.00 departure.
The ecstasy and the agony
Juxtaposed title with apologies to Irving Stone, amongst others There is so much shit and grief going on in my life at the moment that
Podcast poll #4
(these go out on twitter, the results will be discussed in This Reality Podcast, episode 55 which will be recorded/released this weekend) Question: What sins
The Funniest Thing In The World Today
There’s an old saying that runs along the lines of ‘owners grow to resemble their pets’. Or perhaps it is that pets grow to resemble
Scratching on a piece of (digital) paper
I am writing again. The second novel (Helicopter!) has stalled because I can’t get the characters right. I need to pull back and possibly try
Where being bright does not mean being intelligent
There have been hundreds of miles of accumulated column inches produced about the 2009 season of the British quiz programme ‘University Challenge’. The primary reason for
Sunday not Bloody Sunday
What could be better than driving up to Stratford on a Sunday morning? What could be better than spending four hours with Amy and her
The Daily Mirror; the epitome of literary skank
And then… hours later (presumably after someone pointed the error out to at least one of the many editorial staff employed by the Mirror Group):
Stream of subconscious
This is just going to be a run through the randomness of the day Saturday has been a really weird day. There was a definite
The remains of the day
I am on the way home. It is 21.17, I’ll be home about 22.40. I’ve been up since 04.45. That, my friend, is a loooong
Featuring them, featuring us
the first time I wrote that subject line the second ‘featuring’ came out as ‘fetish’. How bizarre! 🙂 So, how’s it going? What’s new? Did
Random sayings – a competition!
Yes, it’s competition time here in the house of the special people. And because I’m so musically inclined and Soph’s so literary inclined I’m going
Getting it right, eventually
Two hours of cross-country schooling got us somewhere, it was such a shame that the first 20 minutes were so bloody frustrating. Working Vin on
Defecating oneself
Tomorrow Vin and I are going cross-country schooling. Given his recent behavioural switch from all-round good (equine) guy to tanking at coloured poles at a
A quick list
Today I love: * Soph (natch) * Browser history * Nice people (esp the lovely woman in the ordering department at soundslive.co.uk) * Daughter *
It’s culture you know
I seem to have wet myself and it’s all ITV’s fault. Saturday evening television is just the place for high art and ITV on a
Going dark
Suffering from a deep blackness. Soph may blog in my absence, who knows, but I’m out of here for a while.
Speaking in tongues
Sorry about the length of the first sentence, but breaking it up loses the non-stop narrative of the scene In the closing seconds of The
What a difference a week makes
It’s photo time! Yay! The thing is, these snaps cover just one week. The first photograph was taken last Saturday, the other two were taken
Ho hum. Awake again, naturally
Look, I know that there are some freakazoids who would actually get up this early (peers at watch), at 07.30 on a Saturday morning even
The best start to a dressage life
The URI below points at a YouTube-type clip on a German website. The clip is 57 seconds long and there’s no audio. If you view
Excitement, balance and Karma
which kind of sounds as though I’m pissed but I’m so completely not! And so the snow spreads beyond London village. Snowploughs out on the
Balance, Crime and Punishment and Rocking
This post is going to start off seriously and become lighter as it meanders. I don’t know why. It just will… 1. Balance On the
Accounting
Jesus Bloody Christ! That’s it. I’m dumping my useless accountant as soon as I can get someone else in the frame. I don’t want rocket
Tailgating
That spelling looks wrong but I can’t find an alternative that looks right… We were on our way back from Soph’s parents last night; the
Inconsiderate
Here’s an interesting observation from last night’s 16:15 from Paddington. People on trains are thoughtless c*nts. As the train pulled in to Reading the guy