An amazing feeling - doing high fives (or possibly low fives) for the first time with my future son or daughter! Of course they could have been practicing their kick-boxing skills, or just banging on the walls telling us to keep the bl**dy noise down! But I like to think they were saying hello for the first time :-)

It is the Law of Sod that states that the evening I am planning to get my little blue car started just happens to be the evening when it is raining - after all this decent weather of late :-(

Just been climbing (after cycling there at the speed of light) and whilst in reception the staff announced they were running a competition - the first person to go to reception and do something to impress the staff would win a pair of size 8 Red Chilli climbing shoes. Instantly a guy jumped up onto the counter and performed a very well balanced ( Read more... )

Did anyone else see the purple light over London last night? I took photos but wonder if some store on Oxford Street is shining a BIG purple light up onto the cloudbase as a promotion of some kind?

I have finally started cycling to work again! I think the idea of London traffic put me off but my main inspiration has been the ever fantastic Helen who has been cycling to Highgate and Archway recently. I have already had two days worth of cycling, the first with a stop off for a couple of hours climbing on the way back, and it is 26 miles a day ( Read more... )

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-unmasked---public-schoolboy-middle-class-suburbia.html

Or is it just a load of old tosh?

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This is just... creepy!

http://cubo.cc/

Tim was an old schoolfriend. He joined our school in the third or fourth year and and we got talking over a copy of Starburst. He was instantly likeable and became one of our tight little gang of friends. You know the sort of people who will always be a friend no matter what - a lifelong friend - well Tim was one of those ( Read more... )

....Do assertive print finishers wear embossy-boots?

... I'll get my coat.

Who was it?