Neil Hopcroft

“Stephen Harper Eats Babies” Japanese reinvent throwing bouquets at weddings, with potential for hilarious explanations to the staff in the casualty department. Lightships – awful website, interesting product

(posted by email since I’ve hit some kind of routing issue that means I can’t post direct) Sunday saw me heading to the Classic Car show at Shuttleworth. I love these events, seeing some of the old cars out there reminds me of some of the passion I felt for cars when I was young. […]

such as it is so far, is that I finish work in Fen Drayton this week – four more days there. After that I shall be starting in London. For the first week I’ll be commuting down from Cambridge, which is going to be heavy going, but necessary since I’m planning on going to the […]

I met simonsatori and we had a bit of a wander around the fair and grabbed some food before heading to the Man in the Moon. We got to the gig to find that there were four bands due to play not the two I had expected, and that the first were on stage already. […]

The slouch started with an abortive run to a pub near the station – so we ended up milling around at the station, allegedly the site of the biscuit incident, for a while, awaiting the arrival of anyone unfortunate enough to have been trying to use the trains from Stanstead or beyond…they’d been replaced with […]

“Jay’s hair is so unbelievably stupid, even the world of comic books could offer nothing close to the abomination occuring on his head. But if he did have a super hero alter-ego, we assume its origins would involve Boy George mating with a Magic Coral Garden” Response to the Great Lucas Cruft Purge roadside_relics “I […]

Space junk Bug bag Psycho kitty (HK gets analytical) Turn it off High octaine fun Hacked gadgets answer to dead disks

…and sometimes, mixed up in the memories, theres a feeling of being a bad person, letting things lapse that shouldn’t be let lapse, walking away when thats the safe option. I bought a card to write to someone I care about, but then I realised I didn’t have a pen. Even if I did, I […]

Goth origami Nice unusual photos (worksafe, surreal)

Today I went for a drive, my intention was to go to see Orford Ness. First stop was Orford Castle, which is a compact castle, it looks quite small from outside but is somewhat more extensive from the inside, with lots of clever little rooms tucked into the walls. It seems to have been well […]