Neil Hopcroft

Uhoh. I think i ate too much breakfast again. Yesterday it took me through to 5pm, when i needed a snack to last the rest of the day. And the radio has just had someone advertising rocks, nice comfortable rocks for christmas. They’re a strange bunch these scots.

Guess what i would have done if i were designing this tissue box?

… Except i’m not sure i can remember what snow smells like. Aviemore. There’s a chill in the air and its got the right mix of cloudy and clear to drop the temperature for snow. Will it happen? Doubt it. And if it does it won’t be serious, just enough of a dusting to make […]

Gratuitous post from the middle of nowhere. I’m only posting this because i shouldn’t have coverage here but i’ve got 7 bars. Eta: of course the cell, for all its bars, didn’t support gprs, did it?

I’ve just driven past Renton. It was dark so i’ve no idea if its as grim as my imagination makes it seem. Glasgow has rather more traffic than i was expecting. Now, stopped for the night at Luss on the shore of Loch Lomond. This morning was a visit to the pencil museum and the […]

Why are you warning me about something you’ve done for my safety? I awoke this morning to realise that the motorway is as far from the travellodge as the m25 is from my house. There’s more green here though.

I stop for the night at lancaster services and discover i’m already north of a significant portion of the places i had been intending to visit. Oh well the lawnmowers can wait, maybe i pop in on the way back. Next stop the pencil museum.

… Deciding just who deserves to die. I’m not a very good consumer at the best of times, but doubly so at this time of year. Still, enough of that. I’m heading north on a tour of museums. No plan. But you know that story already. More later.

The strongest kitty-room on the face of the earth! Let:s look with Feng Shui! Online encyclopedia of UK motorway heritage

So i start my weeks break with a pilgrimage to the awesome space of St Pancras Station. They still haven’t finished the works there, so its a little difficult to figure out what its going to be like when its done. Now i’m waiting for the rain to stop before heading onward to bmovie. I […]