The Swimp3
As the eight person contributes to the sponsorship fund for my Swimathon (I’m still only 28% of the way there, so please don’t be shy about contributing), now might be…
Rainmates and Coconut Scrapers revisited
Not a lot of people leave comments on my site; in fact, hardly anyone. So I know that I must have hit on a topic of real concern to the…
iDiot Pedestrians
I’m delighted to see that NY State Senator Carl Kruger wants to fine pedestrians who walk headlong into traffic because they’re so immersed in the world of their mobile, iPod…
Aberdeen
To Aberdeen for the day yesterday, where the weather was warmer than London. The sky was completely clear, and made it perfect lighting for photographs. More in the Aberdeen gallery…
The Rite of Springing
By happy accident, I stumbled across a wonderful blog entry by Brendan McCarthy on the ritual of ballet class (Thoughts during a ballet class). This expresses eloquently precisely why I…
Excellent schmexcellent, Mr Brown
“Non-learners ‘may lose benefits'” is one of the most bizarre, frightening, Orwellian headlines I’ve read in a long time. How did the concept of ‘learning’, or indeed ‘benefits’ become so…