May 2005
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Real people
I was working at home the last couple of days, mainly research and planning (which now means I fully understand the tasks ahead of me for a particular project and it’s now scaring the heebie jeebies outta me!!), and it’s always a bit odd slipping back into the stream of commuters and co-workers. It’s akin…
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Sporting
I watch and follow a lot of sport, in fact there are few sports I don’t watch – horse racing being the main one (I just typed “house racing” which could be an interesting DIY show…). I prefer basketball to football, football to rugby, and everything else falls in line after that. I play 5-a-side…
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Headshot
We have some empty picture frames lying around, and we’d like to put some photos of our friends and family in them. This poses a slight problem though as we don’t have any photos that we like. I did a little research last night, and as we are getting together with our friends at the…
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Topol
Why don’t we teach basic financial lessons at school? Surely in these days of mass consumerism, rising debt levels, ridiculous house prices, multi-credit cards and consolidation loans, it make some sense to offer simple and practical advice? It’s one of those things you are just supposed to “know”, isn’t it. Yet when I come across…
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Only a game
Visited my Gran yesterday, hadn’t seen her for a couple of weeks and she’s doing fine. She asked me to, again, thank you all for your previous kind wishes. The printout my Mum took to show her is still on her table, and she made sure I looked through it again, you are a nice…
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Disgrace
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee What a fascinating book. The tale of a man (David) losing his way, submitting to his desires and how redemption can sometimes be lost as well. The story is of an ageing divorcee college lecturer, who seduces a student. Their brief affair finds him cast out of the college, and of…