I got the equipment at Christmas, and dear me it’s taken long enough to get cracking on it, but I eventually brewed up my first batch of wine today. It’s a fascinating little bit of Science when you think about it. mix together liquid, add yeast and a bit of heat and it’s bloop, bloop, [...]
I love Twitter, I like its real-time stream. I don’t use the Notebook Twitter account as much as my personal one because I haven’t figured out how to manage two … don’t have that many thoughts that I feel the need to share with the World. But the one thing that deeply irritates me about [...]
Liam Neeson seems to be morphing into a bad ass in his movies, but he pulls it off and I like it. ‘The Grey‘ – I didn’t know what to expect from this movie apart from the screen shots of him readying for a fight. The premise is not new. X number of people hunted [...]
“Why are there no Paper Boys anymore?” I thought to myself this morning while lying in bed. I felt the urge to not move, making my way through a few hundred cups of tea pouring over the papers. That’s what (some) Sunday mornings are about. Nowadays though you have to get up, get dressed, put [...]
We had quite a bloody good trip to London. It was MBH’s first time she’d spent more than an hour there and the first time I’ve spent any social time there for around 20 years. That was the slightly weird bit for me – so many memories that seemed only a little while ago, but [...]
I have a huge weakness for all things writing related. What I mean is the tools and materials. I get all “Oooo!” and “Ahhh!” over pens, inks and really good paper. I miss the days when everybody wrote letters. There was nothing better than getting a personal letter in the post. It’d be a shame [...]
Tomorrow we fly out for a four day trip to London. I’m uncharacteristically bloody excited about it. MBH has only been on a flying visit and didn’t get to see too much. I used to live there so I’m actually really looking forward to showing her around my old haunts – but then I realise [...]