I think we are just about settled in properly now. Over the weekend we got some lamps for the living room and we are happy with that now – even happier when the new dining table and chairs arrive on Friday to replace the temporary ones we have, but still happy enough. I haven’t actually [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
Unsolicited testimonial time
November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Sounds like a Fall song title doesn’t it? Maybe it is… so hard to keep track. Anyway, we moved in a week ago and everything is now nearly sorted out. Just a box or two to go through…
I’m so glad I took a few days off work to get everything straight.
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The final countdown
October 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
Not long before we move out now. All the paperwork was signed this afternoon and I’m hoping we can get through a day without any crises or sudden spanners in the works. Still not all packed, but I am off work tomorrow and should get everything done in time. The broadband and TV goes off [...]
Tags: Housing
What will tomorrow bring
October 20th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Life
For the time being my personal anthem will be Femi Kuti’s masterpiece What Will tomorrow Bring – the remixed version naturally.
On Sunday night I wrote about how we were only six days from moving house. On Monday got a text from Jayne saying there was a hitch do do with the electrics at the new [...]
Tags: Housing
Preoccupation
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
If I have been quiet here, and let’s face it I have, there are several good reasons. Mostly they are do do with an impending house move and several aborted house moves.
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False alarm
October 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I thought for a brief moment that I had made it. Got a tweet from somebody whose name I didn’t recognise, looked at their profile and saw they they follow 7 people:
Stephen Fry
Dave Gorman
Sarah Millican
Chris Addison
Doug Naylor
Bill Bailey
Me
Then realised that their real name, as opposed to Twitter username, was the same as my brother-in-law and [...]
Tags: Twitter
Some forthcoming attractions
October 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Music
Always lots to do and see in the last few months of the year. This is a very selective sample (i.e. the ones I intend to go to). If anybody else is going to any of these I’ll see them there.
October 22nd – Covered at the Queen’s Head, Horsham
Covered are a seven-piece covers band doing [...]
I’ve seen all good people
October 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Music
Last night I went out to see Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson playing at the Hawth theatre in Crawley. Rick Wakeman. Jon Anderson. In Crawley!
This was the second date on their 20-date ‘Anderson-Wakeman Project 360′ tour, coming to a provincial town near you soon, and the ticket was a birthday present from Chrystal which makes [...]
A cheeky little vintage crime
September 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
According to the Guardian, thieves stole a French winegrower’s entire harvest – 30 tonnes of grapes over 2 hectares. A few thoughts:
How do winegrowers survive if their entire harvest, a whole year’s work, is only worth £13,000?
How much do grape-harvesting machines cost? Presumably this bloke has one for his own harvest and it sits in [...]
Confusing headline
September 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
The BBC News website had a link to a story with the headline Research widens height gene hunt. It took a while for my poor old brain to drag any sense out of it. Subconsciously I was isolating ‘gene hunt’ as the character from Life on Mars and being left with something widening height. The [...]
Tags: WTF
