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September 17, 2007 by graham
Herbstlich
It occurs to me that, in not following our Northern American brethren in adopting the word 'Fall' to name the third season of the year, and so instead sticking with the more poetic 'Autumn,' we've done ourselves out of a perfectly good verb. So although today in Lancaster Fall has most definitely fallen (Spring springs, [...]Archive
May 10, 2007 by graham
It must be Thursday
I never could get the hang of Thursdays. I have a throbbing headache and, looking out of the window, I saw this: It is possible that the world is going to end in… oh, about twelve minutes time. Don't say you weren't warned. (With apologies to Douglas Adams, natch.)Archive
January 28, 2007 by graham
But sir, ’tis a connection nonetheless
I pay for (upto) 8Mbps broadband. I usually get circa 4.5 – 5Mbps download, 512Kbps – 1Mbps upload. Since we’ve been reconnected (yay!) I’ve had upload speeds of 400-odd Kbps, which is okay, and download speeds of 120Kbps, which is most definitely not. If we assume that in this context 1Kb = 1 kibibyte (i.e. [...]Archive
October 29, 2006 by graham
Winter cometh
Ah, winter. The clocks have gone back, so I got an extra hour’s sleep and still got up at half past nine this morning, the sky is blue, the trees are brown and, best of all, the Blue and Great Tits have started coming to the office window, pecking at the stone frame and waiting [...]Archive
August 7, 2006 by graham
Lazy
05:45: Alarums, etc. Two of them in fact: the clock and my phone. The message? ‘Wake up you lazy devils, you need to be at the gym in 45 minutes.’ Assorted switchings-off, sleep. 06:07: Crack an eyelid, notice the time. The clock reads 06:14 because at some point I set it seven minutes fast. At [...]Archive
July 5, 2006 by graham
In Need of a Towel
My aforementioned Arthur Dentishness was compounded this morning when I drew back the curtains at eight o’clock (in my dressing gown, naturally) and saw a big yellow bulldozer. The world is very strange…Archive
July 5, 2006 by graham
The Dawn Chorus
I was woken at four o’clock this morning by somthing chirrupping and squeaking about six feet above my head. At first I thought it was another mouse in the roof, though I’d never heard them squeak before. Then, after my just-woken befuddlement passed (or at least faded a bit), I realised that it was a [...]Archive
July 4, 2006 by graham
Goosebumps
"Aha!" I hear you all cry, "An update at last!" Well, yes. And yes, I’m going to stick my usual excuse in, which is "Busy, very busy." Also, I’ve developed a stinker of a head cold, which has left my sinuses filled with something not unakin to that white, fish-smelling glue that they give you [...]Archive
June 2, 2006 by graham