Serious Business

Posted on Mon 23 August 2010 in general

While Fliss was away for the weekend on her extended crochet and knitting course I was handed a list of tasks to do in her absence. My Dad came around to help me* replace the light fittings and we then cycled into town for the most enjoyable task from the …


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The wheels of Justice turn slowly indeed

Posted on Fri 20 August 2010 in general • Tagged with court, crime, justice, punishment

I spent this morning at Cambridge Crown Court to see the sentencing of the guy that burgled us last month. This was a novelty for me as this is the first time I've been burgled and the perpetrator was caught. I did see him briefly when his name was called …


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Odyssey, in 60 seconds

Posted on Mon 16 August 2010 in general • Tagged with fest games, lrp, odyssey, rome, swords

We went to the new PD LRP fest game Odyssey this weekend. Although we didn't stay for Saturday evening as we had wedding planning to do we did get a good feel for the game. Instead of Maelstrom's Play-by-(e)mail game of Civ Odyssey is very much rooted in …


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General Melchett was right

Posted on Mon 09 August 2010 in general • Tagged with oxford, stag

My first impressions of Oxford where that it's even less car friendly than Cambridge. I was visiting for James' stag and had elected to stay at the Oxford Social Club. Having booked it through a third party site I was under the impression there was parking. As it turned out …


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A few paragraphs

Posted on Mon 26 July 2010 in general • Tagged with android, gatiss, google, holmes, lrp, moffat, pot-pori, transparency, tv, war, wikileaks

There are a number of potential topics for blog posts swirling in my brain which I'm not going to have time to write. I shall therefor attempt to address each on in paragraph form (Twitter style is a little too brief for me).

We were at Maelstrom this weekend. We …


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