I love magic tricks. I also like to know how things are done. I find that knowing how a particular trick is done does not impair my enjoyment of it at all, although in some cases it leads to a slightly different type of appreciation of a good trick. It is a bit like seeing […]
Entries from August 21st, 2009
Small world indeed
August 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Small world indeed · Life
Chrystal is still in touch via the interwebs with some of the people we met in Tunisia in February. Last night she was chatting to them and it turns out that some of them had just come back from Crete, where they were staying in the same resort and Jayne & I.  As it was […]
Hit them hard and hit them often
August 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Hit them hard and hit them often · Life
Why does everybody else seem to get all the good jobs?  Researchers in Canada have written an academic paper called When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical  Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection.  It is all in this story at the BBC.
Tags: Medicine/Health·Zombies
Bloody airports
August 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bloody airports · Life
I like being away, but getting there is becoming less bearable every time I do it. Â I used to take trips to the USA, Australia and the Far East in my stride but I am now finding even a four-hour flight to be about the limit. Â Part of this might be age, but there […]
Getting away from it all
August 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Getting away from it all · Life
One of the undisputed pleasures of taking a holiday is ‘getting away from it all’. This can just mean a change of scenery and getting away from all the familiar places, but I also interpret it as getting away from a lot of life’s daily routine and away from the television, radio, internet, telephone, newspapers […]
Holidays 2009
August 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Expect a fair few holiday-related posts here over the next few days, even if they are only tangentially related to our hols. Jayne and I returned from Crete today – our first holiday on our own for ten years (not counting some long-weekend-type city breaks) and who know, there might even be some sister Jane […]
Phew what a scorcher
August 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I am not a big fan of hot weather as such. Unlike some people that I have known I do believe that it can be too hot: we have all known somebody who would return from holdays and insist that their holiday was better because it was 45 degrees while yours was ‘only’ 30 degrees […]
This Is How
August 8th, 2009 · Comments Off on This Is How · Life
Recently I read This Is How by M.J.Hyland, another book from Amazon’s ‘Vine’ programme. This is what I have to say about it…
Goodbye to CDs
August 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life, Music, Technology
I am finding it hard to move in the living room because of all the accumulated junk and I am thinking of taking the radical step of boxing up all my CDs and putting them in the attic.  I realised the other day that I don’t actually play CDs very often now, although I now […]
One & Other
August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I watched the Sky Arts roundup of this week’s plinth action tonight because Andrew said there was a good chance of his Thriller dance being on there if they could clear the music rights. It looks like they couldn’t because he was nowhere to be seen. On the plus side, Clive Anderson’s place was taken […]