tuesday morning, to wake up, shower and have the full english. pack, take a lift into the village from the b&b lady, and to head straight for the library even if only to avoid the rain. market day, the stalls spoilt the appearance as much as the grey clouds did. i wouldn't take a photo of this pretty cotswolds village in the end. the sun didn't ( Read more... )

i'd never used slateford station until monday morning. i'd been over the footbridge there plenty of times, but monday was the first time i got a train from the station. well, it's not a suprise -not many stop there, and if i am going into the city then i'll probably walk or get a bus. but it is my local station. and i'd been through it before, not ( Read more... )

it seems that so many tributes are paid to people when they pass away that you wonder if anyone says anything good about those of us who are still alive. john peel died years ago, and bobby robson went earlier on in the summer. well, our heroes are human, i thought when i went to see ian jack at the edinburgh book festival in august. so here goes ( Read more... )

a man with a plan (or two -the least important plan right now is to go to buy the new maps album next week ( Read more... )

so, to update a load of stuff from way back when ( Read more... )

hey. sorry it's been a while. other things to do, more important things. applying for jobs. yeah, i've got a job, but the contract is soon to end, so i've been applying for another one. eight months this year i've been applying for jobs, and we're only half way through september. (go on, laugh, it's meant to be funny ( Read more... )

jude still hasn't said a word about that job offer she got, but then we've hardly spent much time in the same place at the same time, and usually when we do she's knackered, or it's nighttime and we're each in our own bed ( Read more... )

the match (west brom v newcastle) was on telly yesterday. it was a surprise for me to see it, i didn't know it was on. i was leaving work at the time, but it kind of tempted me to stay. still, i walked out ( Read more... )

i shouldn't know this but i do ( Read more... )

I thought I'd advertise the fact that we've got an art installation here at the Dean Gallery and anyone can help out and take part with it. It's really simple and you wouldn't really have to see the thing or to visit the gallery to take part ( Read more... )