1001 Reasons to Be Depressed

I was in the bookshop* yesterday and saw a book called something like “1001 Places to See Before You Die”. A very nice picture book, full of interesting locations. There are many of it’s type.It struck me that, if you’re not careful, it could...

The (not so) Silent Blogger

You may have noticed a large gap in this blog. Have I been remiss in my blogging? Nay not so. I’ve been off through Europe on the Sucata Run and was blogging furiously on the team blog.First time I’ve tried any real-time blogging like that and it was a lot...

Introducing… The GMail Ad Game

One of the many great things about GMail is the single advert you get at the top of your inbox. As with everything Google-esque, it is context-sensitive to what is going on the page and, particular to GMail, in the email on the page.So, here is the, I admit entirely...

Kings of the Hill

It would be remiss of me not to also post this here (it is already on the General Ignorance Blog). We spent today in the blazing sun starting the paint job on our car, The General, for the Sucata Run. I thought I’d try a little time lapse video. It worked pretty...

Half Year Review

At the end of last year I wrote a list herein of things I’d like to accomplish this year. As we are now half way through, thought it time to have an interim review. 1 Great Photograph Well, still waiting for this one. Taken a few decent ones but even the arrival...

Lethal Mizzle

Friday night, wrote Mr Kipling, I stood in a field in the rain watching small figures the size of Hornby railway figures play some loud music I had heard before.It would be very easy, at this point, to descend into a straight-forward review of Radiohead on Glasgow...