Working From Home
Today I find myself holed up in the study/junk room at home, drinking coffee, and trying to get my head around somethingI have been studiously avoiding at wo...
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Warcraft
We watched “Warcraft” last night - the movie based on the massively multiplayer role playing game “World of Warcraft” (or more specificallythe never-ending l...
An Absence Of Adventure
While reading a wonderful post about a far flung friend’s tumultuous journey to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert earlier this year, a pretty obvious trui...
Birthdays Chores Mobile Phones And Endless Rain
It’s 10:30am on Saturday morning. The washing machine is on it’s third load after getting up a little after 7am. Both of the younger kids are at football mat...
Thoughts About Leaving Tumblr
Over the past few weeks I’ve been giving this whole blogging escapade a fair amount of thought. More thought than I’ve given it in quite some time - which do...
Eating My Middle Daughters Lunch
I suppose technically my lunchtime has already finished, but given that I’ve been answering co-workers questions, responding to emails, and doing whatever el...
A Magazine About Blogging
While perusing the various techie magazines in a high street shop this afternoon, waiting for Miss 16 to buy whatever it is that 16 year old’s take half an h...
Hunted Idiocy Abounds
I started watching a television show this evening called “Hunted”, where a group of people are given the opportunity to try and win 100,000 by “not getting c...
An Adventure In London
Miss 16 received quite a bit of money for her birthday - both from ourselves, and from extended family - and hadn’t really had a chance to spend anything yet...
The One Where I Was Mistaken For A Former Professional Sports Person
While standing at the side of the football pitch watching our youngest play this morning, a Dad that lives across the way from us wandered up to me, and aske...