I feel that, after almost two years of neglect, I ought to post my forwarding address here.

For continued ramblings and bloggage, you can now keep up with me at my official site and blog:

GoldeenOgawa.comI also have updates for eBooks, publishing, and art sales there as well trip reports and random bloggage. I feel I should at some point go back ( Read more... )

On the Great Western service to London Paddington, somewhere south of OxfordWe are leaving Oxford now, so writing about Cardiff is a bit of a stretch for me, so much has happened since. But I know that if I wait things will only get worse. Anyway, there is something very particular about our second day in Cardiff that I wanted to talk about, so ( Read more... )

2 Woodstock Road, OxfordOur visit to Cardiff was something of a compromise, and it may have puzzled some of my friends to learn I was going there. One (who shall remain nameless, but he knows who he is) exclaimed: "Cardiff? Why would you want to go there? It's where all the British Rednecks live ( Read more... )

Still the Graveyard of St Giles Church, OxfordI have three things keeping me company right now. Dafydd (who I will introduce in his own time and place) and two pigeons who are doing their part to keep the graveyard free of stray pieces of bread. In this capacity, one of them got so close I could make out the scales on its bright pink feet, and the ( Read more... )

Graveyard off St Giles Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.I am writing this in a graveyard in Oxford, and despite its intended purpose, it is actually quite a cheerful place. It is a sunny, warm afternoon, and I can see the tower of St Giles rising above the row of evergreens that mark the primary path between the tombstones ( Read more... )

May26-27 2011
Salisbury, Wiltshire, U.K.

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May 24th to 25th 2011
Salisbury, Wiltshire, U.K.


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Next Monday I'll by flying out to London for a three week stay with our friends over the pond, along with my Awesome aunt. We're going to be walking and riding bicycles over the south-western area, visiting Salisbury, Bristol, Cardiff and Oxford-before heading back to London for the last few days.

Anyway, unlike our trip to Italy last year I'll be ( Read more... )

I started this thing I'm calling the Winblog because it's so easy to find depressing, cynical stuff out there. I thought it would be a good idea to gather together in this little corner the things that remind me why the world is a mixed bundle of good and bad. In short, to have a little oasis of win in a vast sea of fail ( Read more... )

Some days you just don't want to get out of bed. Those days suck. For those days, there is this:

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