Creativity, curiosity, and code
I’m beind with updates again, including a big write up of our holiday exploits. It’s been a busy week, and with a 15 hour day at work on Wednesday, I was due a few late morning in, so I’ve been making use of my longer, 8.5 mile commute to work. I’ve had two little incidents […]
It’s been a while and we’re off on holiday tomorrow so here’s a few thoughts to jot down before I go. Easter and “The Passion” It’s Easter Sunday. Easter is obviously a hijacked pagan festival – witness the eggs and bunnies that symbolise new life as spring approaches – heck the date of easter even […]
I’ve been a bit preoccupied with other things so song-learning has been top of my agenda lately, but there has been some progress. I struggled with “Mr Jones“, not with the words, as you might have expected, but with the rhythm. Singing and playing this song at the same time is really hard. So I […]
We saw the trailers for this film ages ago and, as we like Simon Pegg (of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), we thought it would be worth a bash. But we totally missed it at the cinema. However, Sally’s borrowed it from a friend and so we sat down with a curry […]
We’ve discovered a great way to use our thousands of accumulated Nectar Points (Supermarket Loyalty Card points)…we can use them to buy CDs! We recently got three in this way that I’ll just give a little write up of. I’m not the best music reviewer, but here are my thoughts. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black […]
Today we attended the Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show 2008 at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. We mostly went because Sally was working on the National Trust stand and she got me a free “VIP” ticket. It was an interesting day with many contrasts. I got lots of free stuff. And I bought some expensive […]
Philip Pullman is an author with a reputation. He is the children’s Dan Brown. He’s known more for the controversy about what he writes than for how he writes. I don’t like Dan Brown’s writing. I read the Da Vinci Code and though I thought it was gripping and exciting, it was also patronising and […]
Please, bear with me. This is like admitting to enjoying watching “Spice World” (oh come on, it was worth it just for the fake bus jumping over Tower Bridge “Speed”-style). Yes, this was on TV. Yes, we recorded it. And yes, we actually sat and watched it. And, heck, it was FUN! This is a […]
In a vague nod to my newest reader (I think I have two regulars now!), and fellow, though far superior blogger, here’s something that I’m cheekily going to title: “Things Dave probably misses about England #541: Random food vans”. Or possibly Beyond Random Food Vans! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so I hope […]
I’m a big rugby (UNION!!!) fan. I don’ t know why. Football is a great game; incredibly skillful, beautiful to watch, exciting, entertaining. But I just think that football players are rude and obnoxious in comparison, there’s the minority of violent fans, and these external factors often ruin my enjoyment of the game. Rugby is […]