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
Admin post
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My arm aches
That’s not a winge, simply a statement that at this moment in time my right arm aches to buggery and back. Ah, I’m glad you
Podcasting experiment
This evening, whilst trying to answer one of those ‘I wonder if it’ll work if…’ questions, I’m going to try and record some audio for
Covered in glory, not mud
So. Yesterday’s cross country training with Matt Ryan (I thought I’d tell you about it before you asked – especially given the slight note of
Road (train) trip – the second Monday
Yes, the medication is obviously working and I’ve been allowed out of the office again. Today I went off to play with some nice grown-ups
Open University A103 TMA02
To the person from Wakefield with the Telewest account (I know your IP address too!) who just used google.co.uk and the search term ‘answers to
Rewarding stuff
On the train this morning I read the outcomes from the annual NME (New Musical Express) awards and there are some interesting outcomes to agree/disagree
Izit a bird? Izit a plane?
No, it’s LiteraryMeme! Gargoyle (crazy name, crazy guy*) has set me a meme and, just as I was starting to get a little, well, jaded
This Reality – Podcast No 1
Well, This Reality podcast kicks off with a look at just how the words ‘Amateur Production’ are being redefined – downwards! But this is only
Topically speaking…
as it’s Dewi Sant (Saint David’s Day to those poor unfortunates who don’t speak God’s Own Tongue) here are a bunch of interesting sheep-related facts
This Reality – test post
Move along, there’s nothing to see (or hear) here. 🙂 Just a test podcast post using the original test audio file, to see if the
A103 TMA07
TMA07: Block 5 comparison This assignment related to Block 5 and you will be dealing with two different works. When you have completed the assignment,
A103 TMA06
Religious Studies or History of Science This assignment relates to Block 4. When you have completed it, please send it to your tutor to arrive
Did the earth move for you too?
Well I felt it. The earthquake. At 00.57 I was woken by the whole house vibrating and a deep rumbling (as though a fleet of
Top workery
Look, English isn’t my first language. And besides, the English language isn’t static; English is an evolutionary beast, it changes with each generation. And if
Drinking on the hoof
Lunch is a take-away cardboard mug of latte as I jog down the road to Maplins. It has a lid. The latte. Well, I expect
A big day out
OMG there’s a guy over there – a student – whose ring tone is ‘Jerusalem’. But not in a good way, I mean in a
Road (train) trip – the first Monday
Tomorrow I shall be leaving my fellow motorists unscared as I swap my driving gloves (not really) for a return rail ticket from Bromsgrove to
Oh the irony
But for some reason… Amusing in a very wrong way. B.
Low fly, no fly, can’t fly?
First in this post, to Switzerland. Land of the cuckoo clock (even though it was a German invention), numbered account and the world’s most secretive
The sound of absolute drivel
The first test podcast for This Reality has been produced. Actually, produced is a massive overstatement for something that’s so hilariously bad. But at least
Being very bad in the bedroom
I’m lying in bed fiddling with something very hard. While my wife is downstairs preparing tomorrow’s lunch. I’m feeling slightly – but only slightly –
You’re for the high jump, me lad
We’re gearing up for the Eventing season, me and Vin. Well, when I say ‘we’ what I really mean is: * I have been making
Rndm txts agn. Agn
There are 176 texts in my phone inbox. Yeah, I’m just a digital hoarder. But now I need to delete them because my phone is
Just so wrong
01.23 and I’m downstairs and wider awake than a wide awake thing has any right to be. Don’t ask why, just one of those things.
Swindon (swine-don?)
I had to go to the post office in the centre of Swindon today. Recorded delivery shit, the kind of stuff that one has to
OU musings
The penny’s dropped. Here’s what’s wrong with the Open University’s business practices in the 21st Century. Recycling. Yes, recycling is not a good thing. How
Boring techie nerdy stuff
My laptop (bless) is locked down. Yes I put all kinds of software on it but only for a purpose, never for fun. I use
Ah reckon there’s change a-comin’, Cleetus!
Saturday 1st March 2008. A date that will live on in infamy (cue Kenneth Williams in a toga hamming it up with the immortal “Infamy,
Child abuse?
The documentary ‘Baby Bible Bashers’ on C4 is deeply disturbing. It shows scenes that at best could be called child abuse, and at worst could
An apology
To my friends and colleagues at the yard… I’m sorry. I seem to have used the last of the toilet paper. And I’d give it
Working like a dawg
(a work-based form of haiku-style form I invented in my sleep. I know it’s successful. In my dream I delivered it to a pubfull of