Halloween
Yesterday was Halloween. I’m writing this at 1am the next morning, so it really wasn’t very long ago. I guess it would still be correct to write “tonight was...
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November Nablopomo
“National Blog Posting Month” was invented by Eden Kennedy in 2006 for those of us that were never going to have a chance at “National Novel Writing Month” (...
Importasaurus Rex
I just pulled the last 2 years worth of personal blog posts back into here. Yes, I know I said I wasn’t going to, but there’s something strangely comforting ...
Contemplating A Second String
A few minutes before leaving the office this evening I was invited for a chat on the floor below. Without getting into too much detail, an offer was made to ...
Bioshock
After the children had gone to bed last night, I started playing Bioshock on the XBox 360. It’s the first time I have played any kind of story based video ga...
An Hour For Free
After waking up this morning, and wondering why the alarm hadn’t gone off on my phone (I set it as an insurance policy to deliver Miss 10 to rugby practice o...
Old Video Games
I took the kids to the used video game store today, and we went a bit mad. I say “a bit mad”, but in reality we spent the approximate cost of one next gen ga...
Heres The Thing About Tumblr
You scroll through the feed, thousands of miles away from hundreds of people you will never meet, and see people you might become friends with - but they are...
Single Handed For The Weekend
I got home from work this evening, and while dealing with the firstsink full of washing up, beforedinner, my other half informed me that she’s off to the coa...
A Smile From A Stranger
The office where I work is in the depths of a country estate - the building is “The Old Estate Office” - and my journey to work on the mountain bike takes me...