Reading time: 2 mins Yesterday’s post highlighted something for me, namely that I really REALLY need to get the miniblog area of my sidebar sorted out. At the moment it pulls from a del.icio.us account but that means you can’t comment on it, which kind of defeats the purpose for me. The miniblog is supposed to be just that,…
Reading time: 2 mins Have you ever watched someone performing a basic task and wondered why you don’t do it the same way? I’ve just witnessed, from the corner of my eye, someone brushing their teeth. The fact they are brushing their teeth at work isn’t the issue here, although I have to commend them on their commitment to…
Reading time: 2 mins A little over 6 miles, and the last in the series of Polariod 10K races. It was this time last year that I started jogging, but one thing I’ve never mentioned is who spurred me into action. It was someone I bumped into at the end of last year’s race and if I seem him…
Reading time: 3 mins I receive a bribe! Why am I starting to sound like JonnyB! and what’s with the exclamation marks! A friendly email, from a friendly person, from a company I’ve used before, arrives in my email. Apparently he’d like to bribe me to blog about his company and their website. I’ve used said company before, and…
Reading time: 4 mins Recently, Hg was musing on how he is “fascinated by the sparseness of the planet’s polar extremes and specifically by artistic responses to the territory”. He quote from Brian Keenan’s book, Four Quarters of Light, and it’s such a great quote that I have to repeat it here: “Wilderness to the creative mind is like…
Reading time: 2 mins Whilst I’ve written about this in the past (thanks to Donalda, who STILL doesn’t have a blog and I think she’d be a big hit, for finding it for me), my Mum has responded to a recent request for the “Gordon Gordon” story. I’ve never tried guest authors, but as it’s my Mum… mind you,…