Reading time: < 1 min “We all face the same way, Still it takes all day, I take a look to my left, Pick out the worst and the best” We got stuck in traffic last night on the way through to see the in-laws. Louise was driving so I got to sate my voyeuristic tendencies peeking into windows and…
Reading time: 2 mins Looking for my thoughts about R.E.M. at Balloch? Try here. A few random little thoughts to start the day. The floods in Yorkshire are awful but are they yet another sign that our planet is changing? ~ I just can’t get into Big Brother this year and Anna manages to capture my thoughts perfectly. It’s…
Reading time: 2 mins The rain stayed off, there was a surprising lack of the usual idiots and all in all it was a great day. We met up my friends house for a BBQ first, he lives all of two minutes walk from Balloch Park, and finally dragged ourselves out around 4pm. By the time we got into…
Reading time: < 1 min I’m standing in Balloch Park as the rain falls, my beer has gone all watery and we’re all trying to be “cheery” because that’s what you do when you’ve been standing about in the rain for several hours. I feel like a stranger despite this being a “hometown” gig for me, and R.E.M. had better…
Reading time: < 1 min How on EARTH did I not know about this one?? If you’re in Firefox and you click on a link with [the] … wheel [of your] mouse it will open a link in the background in another tab. No more holding down the CTRL key or let alone right mouse clicking and hitting “open in…
Reading time: 2 mins Being a good writer, a good communicator, is a skill. Being able to form sentences and paragraphs, structure a topic so it flows well and makes sense are not the only skills required to being a good writer. Neither are good grammar or spelling, although they are generally the first things people notice and so,…