Creativity, curiosity, and code
Why is it that things that perform a job well always look stupid? This seems to be especially true of sports wear. Why is it that the best way to keep warm on my bike in winter is to wear skin-tight, fleecy-lined tights? Why is bright yellow seemingly the best colour to wear if you […]
I’ve had some wheel problems of late and have learned a few things in the process. Breaking…and fixing…spokes First of all, during the house move, I decided, stupidly to transport our three bikes in horizontal formation – flat, on top of one another, in the back of the transit van. Lesson 1: Transporting multiple bikes […]
Phew, I’m finally back in the land of the living. Where have I been? Here’s my excuses for not writing for a month… Moving House Well, the house exchange and completion went through. We got the keys to our new house on October 5th. Sally was away for the weekend and I’d been banned from […]
After the successes of mountain climbing at the weekend I’m back into cycling to work. And it feels great. Going slowly and steadily at the moment but hopefully we’ll be out on training runs again soon. Funny how this has become so important to me. I feel I have some of my identity back now […]
It’s been a good month for music. Sally and I are booked in to see Martyn Joseph and KT Tunstall in the coming months, plus, there was a new Athlete album out that I splashed out on. Thoughts below: Drastic Fantsatic – KT Tunstall The catchiest of the new albums, very easy to get into. […]
So after a long and complicated couple of days, which I won’t go into the details of here, we finally exchanged contracts on the house and will complete on Friday! Wow. We will own 5% of a house (and be borrowing the rest from the bank). After weeks of not very much happening this is […]
I have now climbed three mountains! What a weekend. We’ve had this trip to Snowdonia planned for ages. My sister and her boyfriend invited us to climb Snowdon the hard way (via Crib Goch) months ago and this weekend, it finally came about. Despite the forward planning, for Sally and I it was all a […]
It’s been nearly a month now since I was up all night being sick…the “flu-like virus” has mostly gone away but, as anyone who’s been watching my Facebook status will tell you, I still have the odd bad day. Tonight has been a particularly bad evening with me collapsing in bed and feeling like I’m […]
Possibly not for the arachnophobic. Some action shots of the fat spider building a web. The sun was shining down and making the web glisten so I thought I’d try and catch it on, err, well not film exactly, but you know what I mean. The reason I’m a bit fanatical about spiders is that…well…they’re […]
This book was recommended as a good read on prayer but didn’t live up to expectations. Before I wrote these notes on it I did some searching and it’s hard to find a bad review of the book. And I have to say that, despite the slow start to it, the book did grow on […]