Gift tagging

Reading time: < 1 min I’ve mentioned Gifttagging.com before (over on the left), but it’s worth another look as they’ve recently updated the site and added some new functionality plus a little extra ‘polish’. Best new piece of functionality: If you have a login, you can now “Reserve” an item to save any duplication. This is a half-step towards an…

Brrrrrr

Reading time: < 1 min Blimey. It’s winter. When did that happen? We had to scrap ice off the windscreen of the car this morning, what the chuff is going on? Must be global warming, or global cooling, or something… Yesterday morning, as I headed out for a run, there was a low mist hanging over the valley. It was…

Questions Answered #2

Reading time: 2 mins In a desperate effort to gain some weird form of validation, I stole an idea for a blog post and begged my readers to ask me a question. And they did. The buggers. Now I have to answer them. Question 2: Alex (a co-worker of mine) makes a statement, or headline, or summat, rather than…

Moving on

Reading time: < 1 min Thanks to you all for your thoughts, very much appreciated. We spent Friday night with Louise’s family, ate too much, drank too much, cried a little, laughed a lot and the cathartic effects are still being felt. Onwards and upwards and all that. Saturday night was spent at a friends 30th birthday party, with the…

Hard times

Reading time: 2 mins Blogging is not life and my life is not centred around blogging. There are a lot of things that go on that I have never and will never mention on here, but I have to mark today in some way. One year on and I can still remember the phone call, the panic to try…

Questions Answered #1

Reading time: 3 mins In a desperate effort to gain some weird form of validation, I stole an idea for a blog post and begged my readers to ask me a question. And they did. The buggers. Now I have to answer them. Question 1: Keith (my blogless* mate) asked “4.56 AM or other similar times that should not…