November 2011
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October 2011
1 post
Watchbrumerican:
bacon-beer-and-boobs:
all-visible-things:
bunnayking:
drtanner:
-jordo:
Everybody watch this.
Seriously.
Just press Play.
everyone plz watch dis
Click it.
The truth is beautiful.
Always reblog. Always.
June 2011
1 post
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Love you long time
It’s been a while since I wrote anything here. Sorry. I have great ideas for awesome posts but they never seem to make the leap from head to blog. So, absent awesomeness, here is just some text to confirm my continued existence. Satisfied? No, me neither. But it’s a start :)
May 2011
3 posts
March 2011
6 posts
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Pancakes
I like pancakes. I don’t eat them often enough really. But today, being Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day and Mardi Gras, not to mention International Women’s Day, I decided to indulge.
A pancake meal should include both savoury and sweet, obviously, and this meal was no exception. I whipped up a nice batch of bacon, mushroom and tomato sauce and used this as the filling for my savoury...
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Keep taking the tablets
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past week you’ve probably heard how overwhelming hype gave way to underwhelming reality on Wednesday when Apple announced the iPad 2. Successor to the bizarrely successful iPad, launched just 12 months ago, the iPad 2 boasts a whole host of features that were missing from the original and whose addition is just enough to keep Apple ahead in...
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
1 post
Not waving, but drowning.
December 2010
2 posts
Fare thee well, good people of Twitter
I’m taking a twitter break. I don’t know how long for but I reckon at least a month and maybe more. There’s nothing personal to this. No single one of you has affected my decision. It’s the medium, not the protagonists, that cause my problems. 2011 is going to be an important year for me and I need every ounce of mental strength I can muster if I’m to make of it what...
Twitter: For those times when you need reminding that nobody actually gives a fuck whether you live or die.
September 2010
1 post
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A-Muse-D by the Visuals
I go to a fair amount of gigs and concerts and I see a lot of acts, both good and bad, who can’t or don’t turn their music into a show. For the most part that’s a perfectly fine thing; some music simply doesn’t lend itself to showmanship. Some acts, however, play around with the visual and make the show as much a part of the music as the music is a part of the show. At the...
August 2010
7 posts
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US Travel Blog - Overview
Well I finally got round to blogging my trip to the US. It took a while and it’s a lot of words but I hope you’ll want to read some or all of it. There are several ways to do that. Firstly you can go to my Tumblr page and scroll down until you see the ‘US Travel Blog 1 - Introduction’ and ‘read up’ from there. Or you can go straight to US Travel Blog 1 -...
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USA Travel Blog 6 - Shopping
For a while, a couple of years ago, shopping was probably the primary reason why non-business people visited the US from the UK. With the pound riding high at almost two dollars and with prices in the US generally being at or close to $=£ then virtually half-price bargains were there for the taking. Every item you buy makes your suitcase heavier and, if it was something you needed anyway, your...
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USA Travel Blog 5 - Sightseeing
I’m not normally a fan of ‘sight-seeing’ in the usual sense. Few things in the flesh ever live up to the anticipation of seeing them that builds up from having seen them on TV or in the movies. So far, the only truly amazing thing that I have seen that was even better than I could ever have imagined was the Grand Canyon. It is simply breathtaking and I don’t believe, as...
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USA Travel Blog 4 - Entertainment
Entertainment comes in many forms and this trip had most of them. With my nephew I sampled the delights of The Wiggles, a troupe of Australian idiots in bright costumes that sing silly songs that children enjoy, and re-acquainted myself with the world of Thomas the Tank Engine, most notably through the excellent CGI-animated Hero of the Rails about an old engine called Hiro who Thomas finds...
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USA Travel Blog 3 - Food and Drink
One of the things about America which is both pleasant and annoying is that they grant cheap access to a LOT of food. Wandering round even the smallest of supermarkets (which, to British eyes, really isn’t that small at all) they have a vast array of, well, just about anything you could imagine. It’s all piled high, it’s all packaged shinily and it all has one purpose - to make...
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USA Travel Blog 2 - Travel
Very few things in this life are more inevitable than the fact that if you’re somewhere and you want to be somewhere else you have to travel. In the past I’ve travelled to and around various parts of America via myriad means including big planes, small planes, overground trains, underground trains, trams, buses, big cars, small cars and, the first time I went, pushchairs.
We left from...
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USA Travel Blog 1 - Introduction
I’ve been wondering for a few days how to blog my trip to the US. That may sound strange but you have to get these things right, otherwise people die…of boredom…whilst reading. Or worse, they don’t bother reading it at all…and that makes kittens sad. So, I’m splitting it up into a handful of various small(-ish) posts, each on a theme. As I’ve been to the...
July 2010
4 posts
An admission
I may have only written that piece on Twilight so I could get the word ‘crepuscular’ into a blog. But that’s OK, right? :)
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Twilight and Me
There’s nothing I like more than a good zeitgeist. Something which gets everybody chattering excitedly and seems to capture the mood of the entire nation, or planet for that matter, is generally a good thing. But sometimes one comes along which passes me by completely. The bandwagon may be a-rolling but I’m still stuck in the station.
Enter Twilight. From what I’ve heard this is...
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Sweet!
Yeah, I encountered the best sweet shop in the world yesterday. Anyone who knows me will know I have a VERY sweet tooth and so, basically, pretty much anything containing sugar, syrup, honey or cocoa is fair game for me.
Anyway, I was wandering around town yesterday shopping with a friend when we bumped into another friend. We went for coffee and he mentioned a sweet shop nearby which sells all...
All change!
I decided on a change of theme. The old one looked really nice but I realised it was actually quite difficult to read the text. So I’ve gone with something clean and simple. White background, blue text, claret links/highlights.
Let me know what you think?
June 2010
2 posts
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The long Glastonbury post
I’ve been to a few festivals in my time. From the small-scale such as Wakestock up to the large-scale such as Reading they’re all pretty much the same. You have a campsite or two where people can try to sleep, a few places for bands to play music and you have a few eating establishments where people can obtain vague nutrition and contract diseases. As you scale up, all you get is more...
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May 2010
1 post
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April 2010
4 posts
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Politics
OK, so I don’t often get political on my blogs ‘cos it’s usually a sure fire way of annoying people and starting arguments. But I simply have to vent my ire otherwise I may, in fact, go mad. Here, then, is a rough idea of why I’m voting for my chosen party and why, frankly, I think you should too.
There’s been a lot of talk about the economy lately, and rightly so,...
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Ouch
I suppose now is as good a time as any to post on a subject which, by and large, I keep as quiet as I can about.
People who know me well, or spend any serious amount of time with me, will know that I suffer from chronic back pain. It actually fucking sucks. From a bystander’s point of view the worst part about it is that what triggers my pain to move from the baseline to the stratosphere...
March 2010
2 posts
Question
Should I post smaller posts more often or weighty posts less often?
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February's Books
With February just recently having drawn to a close, I present you with my second set of mini book reviews.
What’s Left by Nick Cohen Non-fiction - 386 pages
Big, unwieldy Marmite of a book. I hated it, even though the subject matter should be designed to interest me. It’s written with such self-regard that one might almost think that Nick Cohen is the only right (as in correct) thinking liberal...
February 2010
2 posts
The truth can set you free
If I can co-opt the words of the inimitable Carly Simon, and I think I can, ‘you’re so vain, you probably think this blog is about you’. It should go without saying that the examples presented below are based on my own experience but, if you’re a friend of mine, they aren’t necessarily about you. It should also go without saying that if the cap fits you should wear it...
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January's Books
With January just recently having drawn to a close, I present you with my first set of mini book reviews.
Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre Fiction - 394 pages
What happens if you take a group of schoolkids mourning the death of one of their friends and combine them with a group of scientists and priests arguing about how best to deal with an influx of daemons from a portal into hell?...
January 2010
6 posts
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Terrorism? Or just plane silly?
So there’s this guy. In the midst of the snowmageddon which befell our proud island recently he tweeted about Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, from where he had plans to fly and which had been closed due to snow, “You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”. LOL indeed. The majority of his followers took it in...
I am here: 52.461191,-2.030172
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Reading
It’s official. I have designated 2010 to be a Year of Much Reading (tm).
What?
Well, I recently realised that not only do I not read much in the way of books any more, where once I would read almost constantly, but also I have over 120 books in my possession which are either half- or un-read. And that’s a lot of wasted tree, not to mention ink.
So, to redress the balance in this...
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Evernote
Evernote is a note making, editing and organising service. It exists, in its most basic, as a web-based service which allows users to login and create or edit notes which can then be accessed from any connected computer in the world. So far, so good. The beauty, however, lies in its applications and extensions, which make it a far more powerful means of capturing and storing text, sounds and...
Sun in the sky...you know how I feel
And so, having dispensed with the need to create a ‘first post’, and also having attended to me urgent alimentary needs with a nice bowl of soup and some Christmas cake, I can get down to the real business of ‘saying stuff what people might want to read’.
Today heralds the psychological cleansing of a new month, year and decade. And what a decade it’s been. The...
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About
It behoves me to commence this exploration into the world of tumblr with a short note of explanatory text. It has been quite some time since I wrote a first post on a blog and, it seems, it doesn’t get any easier.
I should admit right at the start that I have no real objective for this thing. I have ideas - don’t we all? - but no kind of unifying theme around which I might hang my...