Month February 2005

She's IN!

  • February 23, 2005

Reading time: < 1 min The UCAS website has been updated and my sister-in-law has gotten her place on her course!!! It’s hard to put into words just how happy we are for her, she wanted this so badly and has been working so so hard. Tears of happiness all round!

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Dusting

  • February 23, 2005

Reading time: < 1 min A minor blizzard of large soft snowflakes and the backgarden is rendered white. Next Morning Update: It continued to snow overnight, easily twice this, probably more.

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Knit One

  • February 23, 2005

Reading time: < 1 min Imagine my surprise this morning when, upon tuning into BBC Breakfast, I was confronted with the site of people sitting at a table on London Bridge and they were knitting. Cue “sound bite” from one of the artists (I use the term artist as presented in the piece): “I like the political aspect of knitting,…

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Z List

  • February 23, 2005

Reading time: 2 mins This has been languishing in draft status for a while – given Jason Kottke’s recent news (see next post) I thought now was as good a time to post it as any. I’ve been pondering, amongst other things, the recent Bloggies, and the whole “A list” bloggers thing. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ll…

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Day job

  • February 22, 2005

Reading time: 2 mins In what will no doubt be THE blog news of the week – Jason Kottke has quit his job and will be doing kottke.org as a full-time job. I’m intrigued by this, particularly as he is calling for patrons to donate money to his venture. More thoughts on this later but for the meantime: 1.…

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Wherefrom art thou?

  • February 22, 2005

Reading time: < 1 min Over the past month or so there have been several new people who have commented here, and I’m curious – How did you find my site? Don’t worry it’s not mandatory but I’d love to find out. If you’re ‘new’ to this site, I’d really appreciate it if you left a comment telling me how…

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