Michelle is at home right now feeling poorly yet working anyway. She was up at 7:00am to continue chipping away at her current project which seems to have been planned by someone whose sense of time belongs in another dimension. She's been putting in long hours, at work and at home, and is exhausted ( Read more... )

Me and the missus went to Topsfield Fair the weekend before last. Apparently it's the oldest agricultural fair in the country, though I suspect it has changed a lot since the first one. Back then there was probably a lot more buying and selling of vegetables, farm animals and machinery and quite a lot less being thrown upside down in a metal cage ( Read more... )

Michelle on the Ferris Wheel at Topsfield Fair, October 12th 2008 -


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Little Big Planet is a Playstation 3 game that is going to be released at the end of October. This game has generated big buzz for a couple of years, not only for the apparent game play but also for the game creation content. Michelle got hold of a Beta download last week and after a few days I have to say that it's been a long time since I've been ( Read more... )

The Fall Festival at Drumlin Farm on Saturday was fun. There were pumpkins, there were gourds, there was a jazz band named after a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem. There was cow milking, yarn weaving and a hay ride filled with, and I would have sued if it hadn't been, hay. Photo evidence of none* of the things I just mentioned -


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I used to have a passion for tape Walkman. I started with a number of different makes but ended up in the Sony camp. I would buy one every couple of years, the top of the line models, the silver/chrome, tape sized, feather-touch digital control versions that came in their own fabric pouches and sometimes looked like they'd been designed for use by ( Read more... )

On the nature of friendship ( Read more... )

I am finally giving the recent Neil Halstead album 'Oh! Mighty Engine' the alone time it deserves. I discovered his music and the music of Mojave 3, the band he is in when not solo, at a time when my life started moving in odd directions. One of those directions took me to invest a lot of money in buying new, sometimes sound-unheard, music and ( Read more... )

I love the Autumn like a glass of lemonade loves a dollop of Pimms. The US does this time of year well and deserves at least two sticky gold stars for its efforts.

I need to rejoin Mass Audubon so we can go to 'Tales of the Night' at Drumlin Farm. We did this last year and fitted in with the hordes of children quite well. Why should youngsters be ( Read more... )

My James Yorkston and the Athletes "When The Haar Rolls In" box set turned up last week -


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