1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Signed on.  Got to a permanent mooring in a marina.  Crossed the Ribble Link under my own steam.  Sailed past the Liver Buildings and the Albert Dock in my boat.  Attended the Labour Party Conference. Got sacked.  Had an interview on a big wheel.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and ( Read more... )

Lately, if I'm honest, I've felt a bit cheesed off with boating life.  We've had a spell of heavy rain and gloom, which is shit when you're stuck in a little metal tube without enough electricity to even have light (my batteries are knackered - item #2826 on my to do list).  So cheesed off I spent the last two nights in my parents' caravan, ( Read more... )

I was working on the boat tonight (have I mentioned on here that I work on a boat now? Well, I do) with a bunch of people from Lancaster's cultural intelligentsia. Two people came to the bar, a gent from the local community radio station, and a lady from the city's Maritime Museum.  The gent asked if he could interview the lady, and she invited ( Read more... )

I'm halfway though my second - and last - year at Lancaster Uni.  I'm not going back next year, I don't enjoy my course or the university/city.  I dropped French at the end of my first year, because I had a choice between doing a split masters, with one module in language and one in culture - and the culture course was abysmal - or a minor, with ( Read more... )

I've decided to fire this old thing up again, in an attempt to cure my bout of writer's block (which is really a pain in the arse when I'm supposed to have written 12,000 by next week and I've wrote... none).

So better late than never, my review of 2009. I wrote this out over Xmas but never got round to posting it because I forgot my password.  Let ( Read more... )

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