Posted on Fri 15 August 2008 in general
The travel down was interesting. The Eurostar is fast, after a quick security screening and quick exchange of seats we were on. It gets up to 186mph and it didn't seem like long at all until we reached a mostly closed Brussels station. We had an hour to kill before …
Posted on Mon 11 August 2008 in general
It's official, we are in fact on holiday. In fact I've been "on holiday" since Thursday evening when I got home from work. The first task of the weekend was hiring a transit* van and picking up table from Fliss' Mum's to replace the rather crappy white plastic one that …
Posted on Fri 08 August 2008 in general
We are up in Manchester tomorrow and early Saturday to do the final clear out of bits and pieces from the cellar. A bunch of stuff is going to the tip but if anyone wants any of the following then please contact me.
Posted on Mon 04 August 2008 in general
Yesterday was the last night of the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival. We left in the early evening not long after Mufi and TJ headed back to Manchester as we were quite Folked Out after 4 days of festival. However a good time had been had by all and we saw …
Posted on Wed 30 July 2008 in general • Tagged with orwell, politics
It seems oddly appropriate that on the day it's reported that keeping the DNA of innocent people criminalises them that George Orwells diaries are to be released. In a thoroughly modern approach the diaries will come out in "real time" + 70 years in blog form. You can find the blog …