So I’m off to Amsterdam tomorrow, for a work meeting all day Thursday. I’ve been acting cool about it at work, but I’m actually as giddy as a kitten. I’ve been to Schipol a few times in transit, although the last time I was there it wasn’t in transit when it should have been, but […]

I have a 1Tb partition on my hard disk that I’ve reserved for storing my photos and videos (such as they are). When I specced the drive out I thought “that’s loads  of space – PC will need replacement before I run out of space.” I’ve been noticing that I’m down to my last 100 […]

There’s been a couple of quite interesting posts by Bishops recently on the changing nature of the clergy in the Church of England, and I wanted to bookmark the links, as it can be horrendous finding these things again! First is by Tim Thorton (Bishop of Truro) on Shaping Vicars – http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/views/shaping-vicars. Second is by […]

I realised recently that I have more or less achieved my last list of photographic ambitions I set 2 years ago (Picture This), and I’ve added some new ones to it since then. I don’t know that there’s any photos that I’m burning to take, but I do still have a few ideas I’d like […]

Warning – Spoiler Alert! Went to see “Into Darkness” at the weekend. What an awesome film! I love what J.J. Abrams (and others) have done with this franchise, and the first outing was fabulous. At the time I commented about my appreciation of the fact there was no cheats way out of the paradox. Vulcan […]

Four and a half months into 2013, and I thought now was a good time to take stock. Continue climbing regularly, 10 times over the year, and improve by a grade (to 6b+, think) – Pretty good so far, 4 times this year. The significant thing here is that I’ve learnt how to lead climb! […]

Wow – not blogged for ever. Been so busy recently, and I think my all out assault on the Times Crossword has sucked up more of my time than I realised it had. Anyway, about to go to bed, so no time for a long one, but I wanted to at least put down a […]

I think No. 2 son has his first bad dream last night (at least the first that we were able to discern). He awoke in tears, crying out “the saucepans have gone, the saucepans have gone.” Given he doesn’t (typically) go to bed with saucepans, or indeed have them in his room, I can only […]

Don’t often post meals, but this evening’s really was a stonker, and dead easy. It’s from Jamie Oliver’s recipe. Take a shoulder of lamb, poke with garlic, shove it in a pan with some veg, chopped toms, and wine, and cook in a low oven for 4 hrs, then shred. It’s going to re-appear in […]

I’ve decided to give up (reading) Twitter for Lent this year. I had originally couched this in terms of social media, but actually I can’t give up e-mail at work, and I hardly ever go on Facebook, so Twitter it is. That said, I’m not going to start browsing Facebook just because I’m off Twitter!!! […]