Actually, it was plenty big for two cats, but I've disturbed them by sitting down, so they sidled off singly ( Read more... )

Finally saw this last night.
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Fraser has spent his pennies wisely ( Read more... )

There was an interesting comment fromnicnac the other dayl, wondering how a dazzling urbanite like me had adjusted to life out in the sticks ( Read more... )

I'm at work again, listening to the summing up in the Supreme Court of appeals brought relating to the prorogation of parliament ( Read more... )

..and hear what I say.

I'm of a mind to start posting again. I have a new laptop, and the stirrings of a desire to write longer form than FB or Twitter allow.

I know that this place has been pretty empty since The Great Migration to the Other Place, but I'm still too stubborn to move and, crucially enough, this platform is still here.

So, I'm not ( Read more... )

Well, my MacBook Air lasted a good eight years, but it's gotten to the stage where it won't work unplugged, and a lot of things that should just work just don't. So, finally, with the last of my bonus money, I've given in and upgraded to a new MacBook Pro.

I've been a bit grudging about it, I must admit, but an afternoon of fiddling about, and a ( Read more... )

I finished off my Edinburgh Festival yesterday with an entrancing story telling session from Mara Menzies, who pulled together stories from her Scottish childhood and her Kenyan heritage to spin a wonderful, scary, funny, sad and uplifting hour. At one point, before going on to tell us about brave princesses, and ships in the clouds, and the ( Read more... )

For reasons too silly to go into, I've been given a set of top-end earphones that are roughly five times more expensive than any previous pair I've had. And they are fantastic, bringing things out in old favourites I've never heard before.

That's put me on a full-scale nostalgia fest, pulling out things I haven't listened to in years, as well as ( Read more... )

Ten minutes until my last scheduled call of the week, then I've got a couple of hours to produce a report for Monday morning.

So I thought I'd use the time to throw some more words on the wall. I'm just back from 30 minutes of walking round our tame canal outside the office, and listening to the majestic "Across 110th Street" amongst other tracks ( Read more... )