Today’s post saw the arrival of my belated birthday present from the NHS: a bowel cancer screening kit. Obviously this is going to involve me posting a stool sample to some laboratory. The kit contains an instruction sheet for doing all this, which includes a QR code which can be used to see an instructional […]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
(Yet) Another birthday-related post
October 12th, 2022 · Comments Off on (Yet) Another birthday-related post · Life
No apologies for mentioning my recent birthday again. It was a big one after all. This is about people that I share my birthday with. I already knew that I shared my birthday with Seb Coe, Lech Walesa, Julia Gillard, Wim Kok, Silvio Berlusconi, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Les Claypool, Cervantes and Lord Nelson from looking it […]
Tags: WTF
Eye in the sky
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Eye in the sky · Life, Technology
It looks like I now have a hobby at last. For my 60th birthday the kids clubbed together and bought me a drone. A proper serious one. Apparently there are implications and extra conditions for drones of 250g and over, so this one is 249.5g but very sophisticated. In fact it is so sophisticated that […]
Born to be mild
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Born to be mild · Life
The last time I posted about motorbikes was back in November last year, when I passed my test and was thinking about what bike to get. Of course there has been some activity on that front. I did go out and do the stupid thing and buy a bike in December, when it was going […]
Tags: Motorbike
Just like starting over
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Just like starting over · Life, Music, Technology
Quite a long time ago I sold my turntable (a gorgeous Linn Sondek LP12) and all of my vinyl. We were moving to a smaller house and the vinyl was taking up a lot of space, not to mention the space needed for a proper rack for the turntable, amplifier, speakers, etc. I found that […]
Tags: Music·Technology·Vinyl
Ping!
October 8th, 2022 · Comments Off on Ping! · Life
It looks like I have not posted anything here for 8 months, because I really haven’t posted anything here for 8 months. Maybe this is a sign that the new job I started back in February is a lot more demanding of my time and attention span than the old job. Or maybe I just […]
Two wheels on my wagon
November 9th, 2021 · 1 Comment · Life
Today I reached the end of a long and double-delayed journey when I passed the road test to get my full motorcycle licence. It took nearly four years, but I got there in the end.
Tags: Motorbike
The pleasures of pre-ordering
August 11th, 2021 · Comments Off on The pleasures of pre-ordering · Life, Music
In the last year or two I have been discovering the joys of pre-ordering stuff online. I know that some pedants have issues with the term ‘pre-order’, but we all know what it means: ordering something before it is released. I guess you could call it ‘pre-release ordering’. In general I do not actually buy […]
Tags: Shopping
Autobiographies
June 6th, 2021 · Comments Off on Autobiographies · Life
Back when I was younger, say 18 or before then, I really didn’t read autobiographies, or even biographies come to that. Mind you it does depend on how you define ‘autobiography’. I did enjoy the Gerald Durrell books and the James Herriot books when I was at school and they are certainly autobiographical. But times […]
Can’t get you out of my head
April 7th, 2021 · Comments Off on Can’t get you out of my head · Life, Music
Having an earworm is a fairly frequent event for me, but I have had a really strange one today, even by my standards. Earworm is defined by the Collins Dictionary website, rather unsatisfactorily, as “an irritatingly catchy tune”. I don’t think that captures the full quality of an earworm, which is not just a tune […]
Tags: Nostalgia
