In general I’m a fan of convergence, but I’ve recently realised that I use various ‘social’ websites in different ways, and it is appropriate for them to remain distinct. Take Facebook – it’s the way I keep a connection with friends and family who I don’t see much, but also to mess around with some […]

Went to the Leeds Wall with a friend from Church at the weekend. His boys are in the climbing club there, so he gets to climb for free while they have their lesson. Anyway, he invited me along to be a belay partner. My climbing background is principally traversing. I got the bug doing a […]

Let’s face it, I’m unlikely to finishing tweeting the stag do, and seeing as it’s the wedding tomorrow, I’m just going to go for it here instead. That said, I am going to post the tweets I did make, and I’ll see what’s left to say at the end! Off to a stag do in […]

Well, here we are again at another Lent. Going for the slightly boring route of “biscuits/snacks” for my Lent this year. Puddings and starters are allowed, it’s just those extra biccies at work/home/church/youth group which are getting the chop. To give up puddings and cakes would be a bit sad, as our wedding anniversary and […]

I’m just getting into Twitter (as you’ll have noticed if you know me on Facebook, or have looked at my homepage), and so far I like it. It feels a bit like coming full circle – when I first started blogging, it was a mini-jotter for any random one-line thought I had, and kinda grew […]

Don’t normally got for these meme thingies – but why not, eh?! Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE. Star (*) those you plan […]

Sigh – just broke the blogging part of my website, which means the long and elegant prose which I spent the last hour composing is now lost forever. I think it’s fixed, but I can’t really muster the enthusiasm to write it all in again, especially as I’ve got just about enough time to watch […]

I’ve been thinking about the associations I make between songs and people. Typically it goes from a song to a person – i.e. I hear a song and immediately a person comes to mind. I don’t mean the singer/band member (except for one or two cases), just ‘ordinary’ friends of mine. The reason it’s interesting […]

Came across this interesting experiment on the beeb website: BBC News embarks on a unique project telling the story of international trade by tracking a shipping container around the world for a year. The Box It caught my eye for all sorts of reasons: I was at college with Declan, who is fronting it (or […]

My son and heir is often coming out with very funny things. The ones he doesn’t intend are generally more amusing: God knows everything.… Just like Funky Monkey (Funky Monkey is a glove puppet, by the way). On another occasion, the three of us are snuggling up in bed on a Saturday morning, in companionable […]