Hmmm, well, been a while, eh?

I've been busy and not in the mood for writing here.  Not because I'm not in the mood for writing, and certainly not because I dislike here (as you may have noticed, I'm still on here a fair bit) but simply because I've not been sure what to write here at the moment.  There have been so many changes in my life in the ( Read more... )

Well, this is already turning into an eventful trip.  That saying (or curse, however you take it) “may you live in interesting times” has always been one of my favourites, even if, more often than not, I tend to be on the negative end of the meaning!  Things have been interesting with me.

I haven’t been writing in a long while.  I know, I know, I ( Read more... )

It's birthday season again; that time of year when all the birthdays seem to come along at once.  It's a bit disturbing, if you think about it.  Count back 9 months from when you were born and that's roughly when your parents were at it.  Normally you can see a special occasion around that time, you know, like Christmas or Valentine's Day.  Myself ( Read more... )

Amy was an architect but more than that, an artist.  She loved drawing and designing, enthusing about her career choice in much the same way as I did about mine.  We found ourselves in the very interesting position of both being envious of the other’s talents while still being perfectly comfortable with the choices we’d made.  We small talked and ( Read more... )

Chatting to Anna, the girl from my hometown, I realised that, even though I really dislike Banbridge and don’t even think of it as my “home” (Belfast has always felt like home to me) it still holds a special place in my heart.  It’s my old hunting ground, my field of play and a very large factor in how I turned out.  This doesn’t make it a good ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven’t met me in person before, let me just inform you that this is a much condensed and sanitised version of the events that took place on only my first night in Granada.  The entire trip was wonderful in so many ways and I honestly wish, now, that I could go on trips like this as often as possible.  They are revitalising, ( Read more... )

I’ve never been much of a one for thinking about age.  Age for me is something that happens, not a characteristic of who I am.  I ran into Ciara online today and she was mentioning how old we were and how weird that is.  How she feels 24 even now.  Well, I’ve never felt any particular age my entire life ( Read more... )

At the behest of A, I have uploaded a bucket load of the photos that we took while we were galavanting around the countryside.  We went to Oxfofd, Stratford upon Avon (Yay Shakespear!) and loads of little villages.  It's all so beautiful around this end of the country you're very much spoilt for choice, both with the villages and just the ( Read more... )

There’s been a bit of a, well, slow spell when it comes to my writing.  You know the way they say that once you’re doing something for a living, the last thing you want to do is bring it home with you?  Well, it hasn’t quite reached that stage but work has been really, really taxing on my mind, especially with regards to prose.  Energy levels when ( Read more... )

I seem to be the guy breaking these things....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7203797.stm

It's a breaking trend in movie make-up related deaths.  Wear white make-up all over your face, make a movie, die young.

Not pleased, joking aside.