I popped over to Cuba for a fortnight ( Read more... )

Thirty years ago, I was at Maine Road. City were playing Charlton in the last match of the season, with a good win meaning promotion ( Read more... )

I've been absent apparently....
It's been busy. And not a little annoying.
I may be back slightly more often than quarterly.

Sir Terry has died. This seems awfully sudden.

2 1/2 days is about enough with the family - the 4 year old and failing hearing is a bit wearing ( Read more... )

So Japan was interesting. Tokyo is a concrete jungle with odd random temples and oddities in among ( Read more... )

Assuming I manage to get through the next week at work, I'm off on holiday for a fortnight, volcanoes permitting.

This year - Japan, starting in Tokyo and heading west until we run out of Japan, and then a bit further I think. A trip almost entirely (possibly entirely) paid for by the insane overtime this year.

I thought I'd go and see what this Open House lark was about, there being just the one or two (hundred) places to visit ( Read more... )

Today, in a burst of enthusiasm, I took myself to Greenwich to see the tall ships (also a number of smaller ones at Canary Wharf). It was ludicrously busy, but I did get there just as Gloriana was rowed past. V shiny ( Read more... )

So, time to head to S&N's reception.
Of course it would have helped if I'd considered how to get back to Bristol beforehand (see 'lack thereof').
Lift cadging protocols will have to be enacted.

I must be really annoying on occasions.

Life has been... complicated. And very very busy. Busy enough that any events during June/July went by the wayside. That's a shame, as there were some things I'd have liked to go to ( Read more... )