I think, with a slightly heavy heart, I need to draw my 365 project to a end. One of my principles is ending well, and  I would rather finish it definitely than have it just flicker out. For the past two a a bit years, I have had a picture to assign every day – […]

I love geeky jokes – these ones are all thanks to the Grove Boooks newsletter. Incidentally Grove Books are awesome – theology bookettes on almost any subject you may care to think of. To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice […]

It’s fab having a 2 year old around – they are so funny. Couple of humurous recent ‘conversations’: Me: I don’t want you two to get into an argument 2yo: But I want to get into an argio Me: No! 2yo: I want to get into an argio, please can we build an argio? 2yo: […]

One of the things that being a parent has shown me is how disconnected my thinking can be. As a parent of 2 I have an utter disconnection between my expectation of their behaviour and relationship, and my entire experience to date of siblings (mine own and others). So, when No. 1 came along, he’s […]

I’ve been thinking about the assertion that everybody has 15 minutes of Fame. I’m sure this isn’t true, but it’s actually quite hard to disprove. If you find a counter-example, then they automatically become famous for not being famous – a bit like a googlewhack. I wondered if you could get anywhere mathematically? We know […]

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 […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]