Memories

There are plans afoot…anyone Cambridge-ish interested in a trip to Woodchester Mansion, where there will be an incomplete mansion, a tea shop and killer robots in the bushes, or something. And its just down the road from another Cambridge, too, so its not like you’re really going far. What about Oxford peoples? Its nearer for […]

Idiotisms and Proverbs…including: “A horse baared don’t look him the tooth. Take the occasion for the hairs. To do a wink to some body.” (with thanks to evilmattikinz)

The more I hear about the situation across the pond the less happy I am.

Let me introduce Hurricane Pam. That storm wasn’t real, but it was an exercise to help the authorities to deal with a storm like Katrina. What amazes me about the summary of actions is the fact that communications is missing from the list. It is clear that communications infrastructure is vulnerable to disruption by such […]

I know you’ve probably all seen interdictor by now….I’m not sure I can add much to what he says. Nice to see the internet is getting to be the kind of place where you can find out what is actually happening in the middle of such a disaster without the spin of mainstream media. Sure, […]

Once again the Creating Passionate Users guys come up with another hit, this time its a total immersion skunkworks prototype factory. Anyone up for setting up a lodge in the UK? Or something equivalent….

Cats in sinks, except they’re almost exclusively in basins. Decadence for those who consider two spikes to be extravagence. …and wheres that thunder storm gotten to?

Therapy?

During the week I found a copy of Therapy – the boardgame. This was, by looks of things, published back in the days when therapy was an aspirational passtime, rather than the necessary evil it has become today. Still, doesn’t stop it being an interesting piece of social commentary, and worth the 2 pounds the […]

Don’t mess with Caligula if you can’t stand the smell

There was little choice but to buy the 1938 edition of the collected poems of Rupert Brooke I found today. I was looking for some ugly wood art but such seems to be in short supply around the antique market of Ely. Maybe I have to make some instead. Then I figured I’d go exploring […]