The one where I'm old

Reading time: 2 mins “We won’t become those old people who can’t stand kids and are always shouting at them, will we?” I said I didn’t think so, as we do like kids, it’s just the ones that run around, scream, shout, wail and generally cause minor chaos in shops that annoy. I long to give them a clip…

Once upon a book

Reading time: < 1 min Wandering into our bedroom the other night, I spotted a book on Louise’s bedside cabinet. “Where did you get that?” I asked. “Ehh… from the bookshelf” she replied, somewhat quizzically (she doesn’t buy many books). “OUR bookshelf?” I responded, equally quizzically as I didn’t recall buying it, and don’t think I would’ve bought a book…

25 Tracks

Reading time: < 1 min No, it’s not a meme (although I think there is one). Let’s say that you could download, for free, 25 tracks of music. And, for the sake of completeness, let’s say that this opportunity was given to you by the lovely Lisa of Rullsenberg Rules and that the tracks must be available from emusic.com which…

Life update

Reading time: 2 mins Right, a few items to cover, so let’s get on with it then. Mortgage is proceeding nicely. Valuation came in and apparently we’ve added £20k to the value of our house in the past two years. Not sure WHERE but that was a nice surprise. We’re hoping to complete the new mortgage in a couple…

What is my culture?

Reading time: 2 mins There is a long rambling post that refuses to tumble out of my head. It’s centred around how what I digest forms my own “micro-culture”, and whether the fact that I don’t really identify with any single “macro-culture” means that I’m cultureless? Gosh, doesn’t that sound like something awfully twee and if I were to…

In other news…

Reading time: < 1 min Anyone buy the Evening Times tonight? Glasgow edition that is, well if you turn to page 31 you may, or may not, recognise the person top right. Or you could just check this photo. Yes, my lovely wife has joined me in print, and she gets a full interview too. It’s a “worklife” feature so…