Now I'm commuting on the train I'm reading lots more books than I have during the last four and half years.  I'm going to use this sticky post to record all the books I read and where I sourced them

( 15 June 2009 - 31 December 2009 )

I'm finding my book sticky really interesting so I decided to start one for movies too.

( Year One - 2010 )

( 2014 )

I think I pinched this from davidbrider originally.( So that was 2013 )

What an absolutely amazing day for Team GB.  After a week of watching the Olympic games in every spare moment I spent most of today out of the loop as I was attending a friend's birthday barbeque in Hampshire.  I arrived home at about ten to nine this evening, just in time to Jessica Ennis win her Gold medal and have been watching the TV ever since ( Read more... )

Basically I've spent this entire weekend watching the Olympic games.  Today I started watching at 10.15am and finished at 10.30pm.  I went for Sunday dinner with my parents as usual and they were watching the Olympics too.  We even had the radio on during dinner which is almost unheard of (my parents consider dinner time to be family conversation ( Read more... )

It's just struck me that this is the third Summer Olympic Games I've watched since I began writing this blog.  The first was Athens 2004 which took place when I was living in Plymouth.  The second was Beijing 2008 which was even more exciting than usual as a close family friend of my boss at the time won a gold medal in boxing.  This year of course ( Read more... )

I really am a terrible LJer/blogger these days.  A work colleague commented the other day that no one has time to blog now everyone is on Twitter and that made me sad.  Twitter is great (and I spend a large proportion of my working life thinking about it in a professional capacity) but I don't think a set of 140 character updates are how I want to ( Read more... )

I really, genuinely can't understand how I've managed to accumulate so much stuff in the almost 6 years I've been living in this flat.  When I moved here I made a conscious decision to not buy stuff I don't need or that isn't useful.  Despite this it's still a struggle to sort everything out and move it.  The decorators are starting at 8.00am on ( Read more... )

My more attentive readers may remember that my bedroom and (to a lesser extent) living room walls were damaged by water leaking from a flat upstairs back in October/November last year. Fortunately, the damage was only superficial but the paintwork and some of the plaster are badly stained and need replacing. The situation was complicated by the ( Read more... )