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I really, really like the Angel of the North. I only discovered it a few months ago, when I started flying from Newcastle airport. Today K stopped and let me take some photos ( Read more... )

Well, free_pancho said he wanted to travel vicariously, so I bring you ALL the sights of down town Geneva in one brief photo series.

Starting, of course, at the Jet d'Eau (lit: [Bloody Great Big]* Jet of Water)


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Still have this crappy cold I picked up while skiing :/ It kinda ruined the last couple days of the holiday (apparently you shouldn't ski with a temperature - who knew?!) but everyone was very patient with me going v-e-r-y sloooooooooooowly and bursting into tears for no reason. K's so cute when his being a perambulatory tissue holder, but I don't ( Read more... )

Holy crap. It's 7:30 and I'm awake.

No more sleep for me. :(

What shall I do with an unexpected extra three hours to my day?

Well, here's the obvious follow on from sunset in the Sahara: sunrise over the not-so-dried-up salt lakes.

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As you may have noticed, I stuck to my resolution not to send out any Christmas cards. Not even to my grandparents, which was an oversight rather than deliberate, but Oh Well ( Read more... )

I really like Planarity. I find it quite easy, but it takes quite a while, particularly as you have to start from the beginning again each time, so it takes about half an hour (I reckon) to get to level 12, which is where I've reached this morning ( Read more... )

K & I went to the Unconvention this weekend. As a sort of compromise (he's certainly not what one would call a hardcore BC-er) we went up Friday to go shopping and swan around Birmingham and meet some friends, then to the Unconvention on Saturday. It was good :)

( Birmingham: It's not shit )

That thing everyone's doing amused me. As I'm not at my own computer: p.123 of The Real Story (The Gap Into Conflict) by Stephen Donaldson: "Therefore he needed Mallory's; needed the people who came to Mallory's and sold secrets."

It is, in fact, a remarkable book & well worth reading. I recommend it.Work was at the National Railway Museum today. ( Read more... )

Went to the St Nicholas Field recycle day today. I didn't take anything (I didn't go home between us deciding to go and us going) which I felt a bit bad about (I wanted to take some BC books!) but I gave them some money (mostly K's, admittedly: I owe you one, love) and brought away four books, was refreshed, chatted, and generally mooched around ( Read more... )