Archive for the ‘General’ Category

The cackhanded scrawl of my eight year old self.

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

I dug out an old school book, from way back when I was 8-ish. Here’s a look at the random stuff I wrote about back then.

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I was an electronics geek even back then…

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And a consummate storyteller.

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I hadn’t quite grasped the finer points of evolution though.

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And while I now love spiders, I still can’t quite bring myself to look at a centipede without a shudder.

Tea on a mountain top

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Tea! The most important drink of the day. Even on top of the highest mountain in England.
Tea time on Scafell Pike

If this is February, this must be Athens

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

The Parthenon:
The Parthenon

Changing the guard – High kicks are a Must:
Changing the guard

2010

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

So, tomorrow; the future.
Flying cars, food in pill form and holidays on the moon. I can’t wait.

And I’ve managed to keep this thing going for five years, which rather amazes me. This evening will involve Tea and Cake at The Hidden Tea Room.

30ish feet below Holborn

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Last night I spent forty-odd minutes thirty-ish feet below Holborn in the Kingsway Tram Tunnel, the reason was because I’d always wondered what was down there. The event that made it possible was Chord an installation art piece by Conrad Shawcross. The art is basically a large rope weaving machine, slowly weaving 300m of multicolored rope. I found the engineering more impressive than the art.

Photography of the piece was discouraged, and I’d forgotten my camera anyway, not that this has stopped photographs appearing on flickr.