A stripy jumper and a bowler hat
At work today, because it’s Friday, we had an email chain going round about our favourite children’s TV programmes. Just as an aside, when I was little, I used to…
Highlights of the London Boat Show 2014
I spent my Saturday fantasy boat shopping at the London Boat Show. I have written and raved about it in previous years, but at each incarnation there is something new…
Inky catharsis
No doubt psychiatrists and medication have their place in life, but as an outlet for a whole range of mildly negative emotions (frustration and boredom being chief among them), I…
Apparatus for life
Today, before taking my satchel into the cobblers for a few repairs, I emptied the contents out on my desk. Amazing the crap you haul around with you each day.
Pick of 2013: books
I don’t really make New Year’s resolutions. Seems to me like setting yourself up for a fall. Having said that, I do keep a list in the front of my…
Before sunset
I was obliged to move desks last week. My new desk is about two thirds the size of my old one, but I don’t mind at all. Because it is…
Mexican bean soup
My offering for the latest issue of Scouting magazine was not altogether seasonal. As usual, the designers at the Scouts have done a beautiful job of animating it.
Keeping the weather off
Can something be a series if there are only two of them? Can you be continuing a series if there was only one before? A few weeks ago I said…
Pumpkin head
If The Nightmare Before Christmas was real, and each festival in the calendar really did have its own little kingdom, then I would belong firmly in Bonfire Night Land. It…
Hallowe’en for geeks
Ever heard of a zombie webpage? Apparently it’s where a page is deleted from the content management system but still somehow appears on the website. A colleague of mine sent…
