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Wearing tweed, obviously
We went for a walk in some bluebell woods over the weekend while visiting burge's aunt Jane. Gorgeous, of course, and other-wordly and fragrant and all the things that bluebell woods are ( Read more... ) -
Tube time again
SentinelHe looks at me through the crystal ball and raises an eyebrow. To me, it descends and distends, refracted through the smooth sphere of glass ( Read more... ) -
Back on the Tube again
Blimey, haven't done one of these for a while.The man has a pregnant belly between his legs ( Read more... ) -
I write like...
According to this memey thing that everyone's doing, my cover features read like Margaret Attwood; my interviews tend to read like Dan Brown (oh, dear); my leader columns read like Kurt Vonnegut; and my blog pieces read like Vladimir Nabokov.
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Photo weekend
Went on one of the London Meetup photo courses over the weekend, at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. It's managed woodland and pasture now, with most of the gravestones gently crumbling away. Very atmospheric.
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Minimalism
This weekend consisted of a 40th birthday party with a difference: a bunch of us went camping in Epping Forest. It was an intense experience ( Read more... ) -
Attention, humans
My mate Gavin, who lives in Ethiopia, ran his first half-marathon on Saturday. Because he lives in Ethiopia, I don't know how he did, but I'm sure he got on well. Anyway, the charity he ran for, Kembatti Mentti Gezzima-tope (KMG - stands for Women of Kembatta Working Together), is a damn good one. They're a partner of the UK-based organisation ( Read more... ) -
Ocelot of trouble
I had a day out of the office today; a relatively rare thing, as we're still short-staffed. But we got an invite from a group of defence companies to go to Millbrook Proving Ground to see a new armoured car, and these things are too good to pass up. How often do you get to drive an armoured car ( Read more... ) -
Proper cup of coffee
Mainly for cairmen, but other coffee fiends might be interested...
Some time ago, while gazing around a little shop in Spitalfields, I spotted an unusual and very shiny device. It looked like the offspring of a lever-arm corkscrew and a citrus press, it had lovely curves, and as I might have mentioned, it was shiny"What's that thing up there?" I asked ( Read more... ) -
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I have returned! Of course, seeing as I've been so bad at updating this journal, most of you probably didn't know I'd been away. But I've been off in Kerala for two weeks, cycling ( Read more... )