To the casual eye, this blog has been neglected ( Read more... )

I am pleased to say that My Boy is something of a dreamer ( Read more... )

The Secret 7 and friends do not need an excuse to dress up and go out for a party. We have done it several times now and the exercise is no longer about how to do it, it is now about how well you do it. How far out can the boat be pushed without drifting out into the sea of ridiculousness and prosecution ( Read more... )

I used to think I didn’t like opera.

I used to think that it was all about fat ladies dressed as Vikings wailing in German about long lost battles and lost loves.

That is of course until agrajag_fur showed me the truth ( Read more... )

Those with good memories will remember that I ran a half marathon last year.

I was fit then.

I’m not anymore, mostly because I have run a grand total of 0 miles since.

red_russell on the other hand has been running and is now enviably fit.


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I am drowning in half finished historical posts dating back several weeks.

The journal still lives.

Long live the journal.

~T

I love conventions, I really do ( Read more... )

I have never been much of a Royalist. It’s not that I’m actively anti-Royal, I’m just ambivalent towards the whole exercise. Yeah they cost money, but compared to the cost of the mountain of PostIt notes and Bic biros parliament undoubtedly gets through they probably pale into insignificance ( Read more... )

It will come as no great surprise that I love design, in all its practical, impractical and multitudinous forms. From the tiniest piece electrical gadgetry up to entire cities, you can be sure that somewhere along the line a designer was involved. He or she may have been abused and forced into a corner by a demanding, inflexible and perhaps ( Read more... )

Office culture is an odd thing. On one hand it’s very stilted as you are forced to spend time in the company of those you would not normally spend time with in a non-working environment, but on the other there is a strange camaraderie and a shared interest in the job one is doing ( Read more... )