Four Chickens
When the children awoke early this morning and saw me walk past on the upstairs landing, they didn’t greet me with “Dad!”. They shouted “we got new chickens!...
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Mind The Gap
I arrived back in England at about 7pm this evening, and began the railway adventure towards home. Seeing “Mind the Gap” painted on the ground reminded me th...
Approaching Journeys End
I’m sat in the lounge area of the Pom d’Or hotel in Jersey, just across from the marina. I have a couple of hours to kill before a final meeting, after which...
The Jersey Adventure Begins
The day began at 5am when I woke, and quite surprisingly found myself wide awake. The alarm had been set for 5:30am. I watchedthe minutes tick by for a few m...
Must Fly
I’m packing clothes and a laptop this evening to travel with work to Jersey - one of the islands between England and France - with work. My mission will be t...
Sunday In The Garden
It’s baking hot outside, so we’re holed up on the house, doing homework, playing games, and otherwise hiding. I wandered outside briefly with the camera and ...
Rekindling My Love Affair With The Internet
For the past few days I have been perched atop a precarious knife edge - on the one hand deleting, cancelling, and purging huge swathes of my involvement in ...
A Few Minutes Calm
It’s Saturday morning, and I’m enjoying a few minutes of calm before the rest of the weekend chews me up and spits me out. After today, I’m not expecting to ...
The Great Social Network Massacre
If you’re anything like me (and I strongly suspect you are not), you have all manner of accounts, spread all over the internet. I’ve been doing something abo...
Considering A Reboot Of Online Friendships
CiX, Compuserve, innumerable bulletin board systems, Yahoo 360, Blogger, DiaryLand, LiveJournal, Vox, WordPress, Identica, Facebook, Cliqset, Plurk, Twitter…...