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Plants!
Mum came round this weekend and we made a front garden! We chopped the bottom off the big bush of death and now it's a marvellous witchy wonky tree, and I'm busy shovelling piles of slate stuff all over the plants we put in. It actually looks a lot like a garden, rather than a scrappy patch of yuck ( Read more... ) -
The Breakup
I'm sorry, Kieth, it's not you, it's me ( Read more... ) -
Snow snow snow snow snow (now with pictures!)
snow snow snow snow snow!
We made snowballs.
Then we made a sno-tem pole (it started out as the world's biggest snowball, then we made a huge snowperson, then we decided he needed a hat, and then we realised that the hat would look better if it was another five or six feet taller, and suddenly we had created about thirteen feet of white semi-phallic ( Read more... ) -
I can see!
Hurrah! I finally got my arse in gear and bought some glasses. It's very exciting - far away things are now, like, visible and stuff. Am mightily chuffed (although still think I look a bit silly ( Read more... ) -
Bonjour
Have just arrived back home from Belgium. Was marvellous and full of Cath-based joy ( Read more... ) -
Ions Mine
I found this on the internet and thought it was neat. It's apparently by J. J. Thomson, the chap who discovered the electron, to the tune of "My darling Clementine".
In the dusty lab’ratory,
’Mid the coils and wax and twine,
There the atoms in their glory,
Ionize and recombine.
Chorus: Oh my darlings! Oh my darlings!
Oh my darling ions mine!
You are ( Read more... ) -
Zorbing
I'm trying very hard to write a presentaion which explains complicated information theory through the medium of pretty powerpoint transition effects, but they're doing it again. The office I work in is somewhat eccentric, and they keep talking about fun things that distract me from work. At the moment we're reviving a conversation we had a while ( Read more... ) -
Crumble
I finally finished the plum crumble I made on Sunday. We'd used up all the small oven dishes, so it ended up larger than I had anticipated ( Read more... ) -
...I went sleepwalking
Oh dear. This is why I wear big non-revealing jim-jams. When I go sleepwalking I don't realise I'm asleep - I can see everything that's happening, it's just there are peculiar things overlaid over the real world, and I bimble around for a bit being very confused by them ( Read more... ) -
...we got some props.
Phil decided to pop around yesterday while we were having dinner and left a few props in our living room. It's almost impossible to get to the front window. The chaps having diner with us were rather confused.