I went to Highbury Corner to borrow a friends bike to practice cycling. (After enjoying it in Stockholm and Karlstad, I've decided to get a bike. But I'll learn to cycle competently - signally, looking behind me, et cetera - first. I won't know what bike suits me until I'm riding properly, so in the meantime I'm borrowing H's.) We had a long chat, ( Read more... )

I've just had a fantastic peaceful relaxing and exciting couple of weeks in Sweden, during which I spent a little time campaigning with some Swedish vegans. This is their blog about the day. It's in Swedish, so unless you understand Swedish (you don't? shame on you!) you'll just have to take my word for the fact that Hilda-Maria (the writer) thinks ( Read more... )

The Big Green Gathering was fantastic. The main annoyance from last year - very open sale and use of drugs - was gone, and the festival radio station were kind enough to let me join in. I interviewed, recorded, gathered news, and presented programmes - great fun. And ate a lot.

I'll post links to some MP3s if and when I can.

The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said,'I will never break my covenant with you: and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my ( Read more... )

Several people working in games (mostly without websites) suggested I take a look at the concept of 'Flow'. In particular, Jamie Cason put me onto Theory of Fun, which mentions it a lot. But it's as part of my current binge on “self-improvement” books that I'm finally reading it ( Read more... )