Yeah, not posted for a while. Life has been very quiet here since Oakleaf. Nearly got a web design job; that didn’t pan out in the end, so I’ve been noodling around on the comp polishing up my design, CSS and CMS skills. Just come across a nice new CMS called Pixie; it’s small, basic, […]
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So we went to Yorkshire for the weekend, for the annual Oakleaf Lammas Camp. Having started it all those years ago, we can’t very well not turn up for it, can we? It was quite damp, mostly. Friday, when we arrived, was thankfully dry so that we could set up our tent without hurry. Saturday […]
I’m not entirely sure how serious this site is: How To Destroy The Earth. But it’s certainly interesting. Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You’ve seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You’ve heard people on the news claiming that the next […]
So, another day yesterday driving around delivering Yellow Pages. Not so much fun as before, and not just because it was pouring down all the time. I wrote last time about how so many people in the more rural parts leave their doors wide open; it’s typical of the friendliness of the people living here. […]
…So we’re still delivering the wretched Yellow Pages. We’ve done about 130 miles on the job this week and still have another day to do. But we’ve seen some glorious countryside, and some wonderful properties – from a colonnade-fronted mansion straight out of Gone With The Wind and a Victorian hunting lodge set in many […]
So this week, me & B haz work! Delivering Yellow Pages. When we accepted the job, it sounded easy – just deliver in Dalry and to some scattered farms and houses outside, we were told. Dalry is a small town, just a couple of hundred houses. Piece of cake, we thought – do the town […]
…according to Doc G. After feeling ill, breathless and tired all week, I finally gave in and took my list of symptoms to him. My blood pressure was absolutely normal – a surprise for me, as I’d expected it to be through the roof. But I’ve been given some pills for the headaches. Oh goody, […]
Needing some shopping today, we caught the bus into Dumfries. We had three hours in the town before catching the bus back – what we actually needed to do would have taken us under an hour. So we had a lot of time to waste. In the town centre, we spotted a pipe band coming […]
Didn’t have the TV on at all for most of yesterday. Got very bad-tempered at having my usual news programmes hijacked by the Global Jackothon (even Al-Jazeera was covering it). In consequence, I got quite a lot of reading done, plus decided to start once again brushing up on my PHP/Wordpress skills. This morning I […]
….not a lot. I’d had a really tiring couple of days. Friday I bussed into town to get some shopping, banking and bill-paying done, and managed to miss the bus back (I was sitting on the library wall some yards down from the bus stop, the bus had no number or destination and was coming […]