Off The Grid
I’ve been kind of absent from the blog for the last few days. I don’t really know why. I guess it would be easy to say “life, the universe, and everything” g...
Recent Posts
Shades Of Anorak
After repeated requests from both my own children, and various children of friends that realised I might have the skills required to do it, I have installed ...
An Early Adventure In London
The alarm went off at 5am this morning. I don’t remember switching it off - I’m guessing my body did that curious auto-pilot trick where you wake up a few mo...
The Movie Challenge
While talking about movies that various actors had been in last night, our eldest daughter roller her eyes and stated as dramatically as possible that all”ol...
The 31St Olympiad Begins
I stayed up last night to watch the opening ceremony of the 31st Olympic games from Rio, Brasil. The ceremony started at midnight, and continued into the ear...
Pretending
Sometimes it’s nicehaving a secret band of friends half a world away. You are an escape. A distraction from the drudgery of every day life. Sometimes it can ...
New Friends
Over the last few weeks I have been inexorably drawn back towards blogging, and in response something quite wonderful has happened.
The Mathematics Of Bird Shit
This morning was wonderful. The sun shone, the birds sang, blue sky stretched to the horizon in all directions, and there was hardly a breath of wind. As I c...
A Search Party Of Sorts
I have decided it’s high time I left the front door of my blog and went off in search of new and interesting people to read the exploits of, and to become li...
The One Where She Started A Blog
My eldest daughter now has a blog over at Tumblr. I spent the better part of yesterday evening helping her join the dots between Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagr...