2001
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Imperiatric
Tuppence – this seems to be the theme of my week so far – started on Sunday whilst we were trying to figure out how much carpet we would need for our new living room: “Right, if it’s 25 feet by 11 feet, and the carpet costs £6.99 a sq.metre, and it only comes in…
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Quasimmuter
Started commuting into Glasgow a couple of days a week. I’m in that funny limbo land at the moment where I’m not a ‘commuter’ as I don’t do it often enough, so I am viewing each short trip as, well, a curiosity. I used to love getting the train to college, but it was a…
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Conversations
Life is a funny old thing, hell you don’t need me to tell you that. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything down, committed it to a storable electronic format, not really sure why I am, but just know that I need to. It’s funny how a few things can jog the memory, a…
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Weekender
Relaxed, calm, sunburnt, and quite possible still drunk/hungover… Me and few thousand others will be thinking back to the weekend already, the glorious sunshine, the lumps of carbon cooking on the BBQ, the ice cold beer, the smell of aftersun. All that and it’s only May. This glorious weekend was tempered only by the installation…
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Greener Grass
Sun is shining (weather is sweet), makes you wanna move your dancin’ feet! Was musing to a friend that since I returned from San Francisco, I’m questioning why I would want to stay in Scotland. We had things MUCH better when we stayed down south (financially, socially, weatherly) but why limit it to England. America,…
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Acquired
Well the cat’s out of the bag now, the company I work for has been acquired. What does this mean? Well it depends which level you look at it from. Business wise it should be good for ‘us’… yadda yadda yadda. Main change for me will be a different boss. Initial reaction to that piece…