So much nonsense, so little time…
This post started life as two other posts, one about this story (BBC) and another about this one (also BBC), both of which served only to annoy me. When I originally wrote the posts, I found myself getting angrier the more I wrote; as is often the case with this sort of thing, the more [...]
Faith, as usual, is an excuse for everything
I wrote this post yesterday, finding myself getting ever more annoyed as the words appeared in Performancing, and I realised that I really do get wound up be religion, or at least religion used as a tool for someone’s convenience, probably a lot more than I should. To put this into some sort of context, [...]
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 [...]
Oh, and on Autobiographies
Will over at The Corridor has observed the same thing that I observed the other day: the phenomenon of the early autobiography. People have either become really interesting without me noticing (of course, everyone’s interesting to someone, but if everyone’s interesting at the age of 25 then I’ll eat hay with a donkey*) or the [...]
Billie Piper will be paid six figures for her life story. Nobody is surprised
From BBC News: Doctor Who actress and singer Billie Piper has signed a six-figure deal to write her autobiography What is it with autobiographies at the moment? It seems like everyone, their dog and their dog’s second cousin once removed is suddenly finding the need to write their life story at the moment. I’ve nothing [...]
Brave
Sometimes I wonder if I’m brave. Perhaps it’s a bloke thing. We spend all our lives being expected to be manly, which in most cases means being strong, useful with a hammer and able to de-spider the bath with the minimum of fuss and squealing, but what we don’t often say is that we wonder [...]
Pieces of Eight
I’m a natural hoarder. It’s a trait that comes from my mother and from my mother’s family. The attic at home used to be chock-full of bits and pieces in cardboard boxes that, for one reason or another, most of which were lost in the mists of time, Mum had put to one side with [...]
The World is Very Strange
From the department of Things You Hoped You’d Never Need: Colonic irrigation enema kit +500g Therapy Blend Coffee "This is not the kind of coffee that you will be able to enjoy with your after dinner mints or your morning croissant, that’s because the coffee doesn’t taste very nice, after all it has not been [...]
Sometimes Ejaculation is a Bad Idea
My first reaction upon reading the news that the latest Harry Potter book had won the book of the year award was ‘oh, please.’ Then I read a bit further down the article and discovered that it was a publicly-voted win and thought ‘oh, well that’s alright then.’ It’s not that I don’t like Harry [...]
Odds and Ends
It’s a little odd, being someone who occupies only a very, very small corner of the internets, to find that people that I haven’t had to go out and tell about this blog have actually taken the trouble to leave comments on it. One of them is my very good friend of about eight hundred [...]
True, in two hours I’ve done nothing work-like, but…
Scotland did beat Les bleus, and I was too busy watching that to do anything less important, okay? You know that that’s a valid exuse really, don’t you? Ahem. But, and I have to say that this wasn’t the best highlight of the match for me, though it came damn close, I was delighted to [...]
I think you’ll find that reality’s on the blink again
BBC New Magazine: Baby, I’m desperate Wannabes queued up to conceive a baby with a stranger live on air for a £100,000 prize… It started as a challenge – to come up with the ultimate tasteless reality TV show and test the boundaries of the format. But in just eight weeks, "Let’s Make a Baby" [...]
I could have any of you with a snap of my fingers, just remember that
Apparently, according to the BBC at least, creative people are ‘luckier in love’. That’s nice, but I’m happily attached, and plan to remain that way, just in case you were wondering about my sexual proclivities. No? I’m disappointed. There is, however, something of a caveat for those who are thinking "wow, creative types are up [...]
For the Fallen
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old; Age will not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember them. I stood in Market Square, outside the old Lancaster Town Hall, and I bowed my head as the clock [...]
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Sarah and I just returned from watching Serenity. Wow. I’ll do a full, spoiler free review in Monday’s podcast. Addendum: Apologies to LiveJournal readers for the links in the feed being all mucked up. That’ll teach me for trying to be a smart arse and using simplified Chinese in my post titles. Incidentally, the title [...]
Get Your Orders in Now
I spotted this a few days ago on Play.com in the ‘Gadgets’ section, but didn’t get the chance to edit and upload it until now after installing Picasa on my Windows partition (this is why I like Ubuntu; it comes Gimp’d as standard. Unfortuntely I couldn’t get RealPlayer working on Ubuntu so I had to [...]
Bad Wolf
Bad Wolf Sarah told me about this on Monday but I didn’t have chance to go and snap it until now. This is part of the wall mural in the Lancaster Market Hall. The sheepdog is chasing some sheep (off to the left) and being ordered around by a shepherd. In case you can’t read [...]
Duck!
It looks like spring is finally here, even though it’s now summer. The ducks who inhabit the area around the Crook o’Lune have finally had babies, as evidenced by this photograph: And this one: And this one: Of course being only young they haven’t quite figured everything out yet, such as why big chunks of [...]
Singing Along
Asda, just after half past eight on a Friday evening. The store is relatively quiet for this time of night; the masses who would normally be doing their after-work shopping are relaxing for Bank Holiday weekend. The tannoy is playing The Wonder Stuff’s "Size of a Cow." I sing along quietly as I wander down [...]
