Here Comes The Rain Again
Mid morning, on New Year’s Eve, and the rain is falling yet again. I was up a little after 9, washed up, fed the children, let the chickens out, fed the cats...
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Game Of Thrones
After buying my other half the first season of Game of Thrones on DVD for Christmas, we have begun watching it over the past several nights. We are only four...
The One Where The Year Rolls Slowly To A Stop
I can’t believe the year is almost over. Last New Year is still fresh in my mind, and yet here we are again, buying groceries, and making plans with friends ...
First Post
This is going to be interesting… my first post from the Chromebook. It arrived at 6pm this afternoon just as I was giving up hope of seeing it today. The par...
Carl Sagan
I first discovered Carl Sagan through the book “Contact”, which I read a year or so before the movie arrived at cinemas. The closing chapter has always stuck...
When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth
I discovered “When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth” while looking at the ePub digital document format a couple of years ago. I was commuting into and out of London...
There And Back Again
I took our eldest daughter to the cinema this afternoon to watch “The Hobbit”. Her only knowledge of the story has been through the first few chapters - list...
The Notebook
I tend to carry a paper notebook everywhere. Sometimes I go for days on end without writing anything in it, but I still keep it with me. You never know when ...
Isnt It Pretty To Think So
I discovered Isn’t it Pretty to Think Sovia Nick’s Tumblr (he’s been listed in theWritersspotlight category for years). He published excerpts while he was wr...
Boxing Day
After the children finally settled down at some time after 3am on Christmas Eve with coughs and colds aided by hair-trigger “Santa Sense”, we wereamazed to m...