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Evil Spider Mastermind
Living in a flat with a garden means lots of spiders. You really have to get used to them and you can't afford to be an arachnophobe. Nonetheless, when confronted with a spider the size of my palm, even I couldn't help but feel a little disturbed by its presence. Long ago, at some point in my childhood, I lost the ability to pick up spiders with my ( Read more... ) -
Off to St. Donat's
It's been a long time returning, but Beyond the Border is finally back and happening this weekend. In less than 20 minutes I'll be heading off to tonight's fun. Looks good for the weather holding out for tomorrow, but Sunday looks like it'll be a wet one. Oh well, not the first time. Just glad to finally have our storytelling festival back. I hope ( Read more... ) -
UK Games Expo 2010
Well, after nearly missing the train to Birmingham, the stress of running around trying to coordinate going to my storytelling gig as well as heading up to a convention, my back threatening to utterly break on me at any moment and munching ibuprofen and paracetamol like breath mints, the weekend itself (as usual) was fun, but not without a few ( Read more... ) -
The Story of Storytelling at the ONS Fun Day
Things could have started better, let's face it. By Thursday I was left with a lot to prepare. I was off to Birmingham for the weekend and I still didn't have my tickets. I needed to go out and find a tripod for the camcorder and generally make sure that everything was set since I wouldn't have much time between coming home from Newport to grabbing ( Read more... ) -
Awesome Timing!
Awesome!
Today I have been running around buying a tripod, sorting out travel for tomorrow morning to Newport for my storytelling gig and the evening for Birmingham to be up at UK Games Expo for the weekend. I forgot to buy some extra DV tapes, so I'm going to have to go out early tomorrow morning to buy some before heading to Newport. Today I still ( Read more... ) -
Discordian Gardening
It's weird. After joining Facebook a lot of people who didn't really know that I had a garden have found out and been commenting to me about it. Gardens, I'm told, make me seem really "grown up" and "adult". It's funny, of course, because I'm probably the last person in my family to actually do any gardening at all. I grew up with my Dad going off ( Read more... ) -
Endings: The Spoilerific Edition
Note: This post contains SPOILERS for the final season of Lost and the final season of Ashes to Ashes. If you watch both, but have not yet seen the final episodes, you probably want to, I dunno, bookmark this and come back to it later, or just completely ignore it, or maybe just skim through it to the relevant parts of interest to you and try not ( Read more... ) -
Tastes of Israel
So, while I procrastinate other work, and having just planted some veg in my garden and with a new bottle of Arak at hand, I figured it was high time I started to write a little about my experience of Israel. It's worth noting that this was in no way my first trip to Israel, but it has been over 16 years since I was out there... so that's nearly ( Read more... ) -
Carrion Wars
I've not really ever seen anything quite like it before. As I sat at my computer, a flurry of feathered fury unfolded outside my window when suddenly falling from the branches of a tree, a young magpie slammed into the ground underneath the claws of an adult crow. Two magpie adults tried in vein to rescue their youngster while another adult crow ( Read more... )
