Went off to the theatre to see Miss Saigon last night. I'm not normally much of a theatre goer, and I'm not sure that this is going to change my mind much, although the wife has got tickets for Hamlet in October. The bit with the helicopter was well done, but I spent most of the night wishing that they'd get on with the plot. It wasn't until the ( Read more... )

Tuesday and wednesday night saw the National Fireworks Championships down here in Plymouth, on the seafront. I went along on the tuesday night, along with the rest of Plymouth (several thousand people just on the Hoe, there's another 2 or 3 good viewpoints that were as full). Was really good, lots of big bangs and these wierd fireworks that went up ( Read more... )

I can't imagine anyone wanting to actually look at these, but they're up on the web so I might as well present them.

Holiday photos.

There's some from some old castles, Paignton Zoo and some of the cat in the tumble dryer.

It was my birthday on saturday ( Read more... )

Miniaturisation isn't all good. Not only is it very difficult to spell, it can also make things fiddly to use and, importantly for this small rant, difficult to access for fault finding purposes ( Read more... )

It was supposed to be a lazy sunday afternoon, anyway, but it didn't quite work out that way. It all started off well enough, got up in time to have some breakfast before settling down to watch the cricket. Did this for a few hours, but then it was time to visit my Parents house for the traditional sunday family get-together. Once there, my wife ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm standing up in a sterile room surrounded by people seated on grey, plastic chairs. There are public health posters on the walls, advising about the dangers of drink driving or unprotected sex. Could be a doctors surgery, in fact ( Read more... )