Saturday, July 16, 2005
No Change There, Then!
There's a trend in the UK that is disturbing, and it's starting to spread. We have 'pay-and-display' car parks here, whereby the driver finds a parking space, feeds coins into a vending machine, which then spits out a ticket to display in the window, proving you've paid for the privilige of parking...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
'Twixt a Rock and a Hard Place
Something weighs heavily on my mind this morning. I'm off to Edinburgh later to meet with a friend and some colleagues. It's not that. I'm actually looking forward to it. I've been doing a fair bit of speculative work of late, not expecting to get paid (because the small consultancy I freelance for...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Sunshine, Ballgames and the Farnes
There's a high pressure anchored over northern England, and I'm loving it - day after day of warmth, sunshine and clear skies. I spent most of Saturday in the garden, lying on the grass with reading matter and the radio scattered all around me. There's some great radio on BBC Radio 4 on a Saturday,...
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Friday, July 8, 2005
The London Bombings - Time for a Re-Think
The elation of London and the UK was sadly short-lived. How can we continue to celebrate our Olympic victory in the wake of the death and destruction visited upon our capital yesterday? There is, as yet, no clue as to who may have been responsible, despite the fact that CNN broadcast yesterday that...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2005
YAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
And they said to Madrid - No! And they said to New York - No! And they said to Moscow - No! And they said to Paris - No! At just after 1pm BST today, the International Olympic Committee said YES!!! to London. London is hosting the 2012 Olympic Games! We Rock!
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From Rock-Beat to Heart-Beat
What an exciting week! T & I went to London two Saturdays ago for a 50th birthday party. It was my first ever and, a few weeks away from turning 41, it's a sobering sign of things to come. The party was excellent, though, with two fantastic rock bands playing through the evening. On Sunday I took T...
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Friday, June 24, 2005
Tales of Moistness & Wet Rubber
Do I live in the land with the weirdest weather or what? Y'all read about my narrow(ish) escape from flash-floods last post, right? That was right at the end of a scorching hot day. Now, at the end of a scorching hot week, I hear on the radio that Glastonbury festival, on it's first day, is...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Two Lucky Escapes!
Well, the Farmyard Party was ridiculously wild. I've never seen so many tricked-out bikes and whacked-out people in one place. It was all long hair and beards, tatoos and long forks, trikes and trailers, custom paint and rat bikes, tents and fires, beer and grass, pipes and bongs, music and...
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
FARMYARD PARTY!!!!
I know I'm going to be a Dad at Christmas time, and that's very, very exciting. And in the meantime, I'm going to have all the fun I can squeeze in on my frighteningly tiny budget. This weekend, I'm taking my Honda Firestorm down to the Farmyard Party in North Yorkshire. It's run by MAG - the...
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Friday, June 10, 2005
The First Scan - And It's All Good!
Excited. Nervous. Scared. Apprehensive. Even tearful at times. These were some of the emotions that we've contended with today. Today was the day when our first scan was scheduled at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle. I'm sure we're not the first to feel these things, but we had this...
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