Hanging shoes - (Flickr user ukslim).
Last week a pair of shoes appeared hanging from the phone lines at the Tachbrook Road end of Ranelagh Terrace in Leamington. Another pair appeared a bit later. Google returns lots of colourful theories about what this might signify — for example this collection.
For a bit of fun, I’m […]
To pass the time while Debbie was marking exam papers to earn us a holiday, I dug out my old scrapbook. I started this off in around 1990, but there’s things in it I’d had sitting around since I was in primary school. By around 1995, 2nd year university, just after I’d met Debbie […]
I am not ashamed to say that I find Celebrity Big Brother tremendously entertaining, if unsettling at times.
Reading threads like this one, I am yet again astonished to discover how differently some people think to me. While Galloway can, in the heat of the moment, convince himself that he’s acted with integrity throughout, I […]
Another Code: Two Memories — known in other countries as “Trace Memory” is another Nintendo DS game, which Paul bought and I borrowed.
The first thing you must know about Another Code is that it is very short. Paul, Gary and I each finished it in under 7 hours.
The second thing you must know is […]
I wore seven layers of clothes for last night’s home match against second-from-top-of-the-table Romulus. Steve’s car was frosted up, and its thermometer read -1. The good news: clearing out the spare room, I’d found my Gore-Tex scootering gloves. The bad news, my hat has been lost for weeks. More good news, the club shop […]
I don’t really get tea, although very occasionally it’s exactly what I want.
I noticed that if I made people tea, they’d seldom finish it. The more strident people would actually complain.
So, when we moved office, and had to actually take turns brewing up, I got Paul to talk me through the finer points […]
I’ve been browsing camera shops’ web sites because I reckon our forthcoming trip to New York might be a good time to buy a new one (smaller so I can carry one around more; higher resolution video; not wrecked from being in my pocket with my keys).
For a few exhiliarating minutes, I seriously thought […]
On Saturday, Debbie had an examiners’ meeting to attend, so I watched some more films at The Electric.
First off was a selection of short films collected into a programme called “Channel 2″ (”Channel 1″ had already been, and “Channel 3″ is today I think). The organisers had a problem with their printer, so the […]
To Birmingham, last night, for an engaging evening in the company of “Godfrey Salter and his Invisible Ducks”, at the Electric Cinema.
As part of the First Flatpack Film Festival, this was a portmanteau of film, almost film, and music with a flavour of the Edwardian touring entertainer.
The problem was, we turned up and […]
Just before Christmas, we finally left the IBM Warwick office for a dedicated GXS facility in another part of Warwick (a part that many people would wrongly believe was Leamington). It’s making me fitter because I now walk to work, but it’s making me less well informed because I used to use the bus […]