The first Friday in January is New Year's Day. However, it seems a bit unlikely that everyone will be up for our regularly-scheduled pub social when they may still be nursing hangovers from the night (year?) before. (Just what am I implying here ( Read more... )

In preparation for the imminent release of Jurassic World, I will be hosting a Jurassic Park Trilogy marathon on Saturday 6th June. Turn up from 3:30pm for a prompt 4pm start.

The first Jurassic Park surely needs no introduction. If you haven't seen it, what have you been doing since 1993 ( Read more... )

I didn't do much over the Easter weekend, so I was determined to make more of this bank holiday weekend. And I did ( Read more... )

It's Good Friday this week, but that's no reason why the First Friday Social shouldn't still go ahead, for those of us who are in Sheffield.

Discussions over on that facebook suggest we're still expecting quite a decent sized turnout.

Hope to see you there if you can make it!

This weekend just gone was a good one. I wasn't especially busy or doing anything spectacularly exciting; it was just a really enjoyable time. There was the Third Friday Social at the Blake, which was relaxing and a good laugh even without all the gin! Then on Saturday I got stuff done in the morning before an invasion of Nightingirls in the ( Read more... )

June feels a bit like the eye of the storm, caught between a very busy May and an insanely busy July. I was actually in work for five normal days this week, for heaven's sake ( Read more... )

It's been a busy old time of late.

The week before last, I combined a work trip to London with ( a bit of sightseeing. )

Christmas this year seems to have spilled out either side of December...

( Here's what I've been up to so far. )

Just a reminder, because the calendar's likely to catch you unawares - This Friday is the First Friday. Walkley Cottage as usual?

Oh, and we have all remembered to put our clocks back today, right? ;o)

So... Commonwealth Games tickets can be applied for until 16 September.

It would be nice to go with other people, make a decent trip of it, see some events and hopefully a bit of Glasgow as well (a city I've never visited but wanted to).

I discussed this briefly with clarestar when we bumped into each other in Morrisons (in the beer aisle, naturally) the ( Read more... )