Category: General Entries

  • Sunday night already? I spent the weekend at my friend Claire’s cow-themed hen weekend and had a pretty good time. I’m not usually a very outdoorsy person, but it was exhilarating doing high ropes and zip line activities – even…

  • I’m pasty white, there’s no two way about it, I have no lovely olive skin that tans nicely as soon as the sun peaks out of the clouds. So I thought I’d do something about it and bought some of…

  • I started the list wanting to post 10 items, but I can only think of four. What new useless facts have you learned recently? I always wondered where Mormons communities were and who they were. Only last week, I realised…

  • Mr. Patto highlights the fact that Australia’s new tourism commercial, which has the tag-line “So where the bloody hell are you?”, has so far been modified, restricted or banned in the UK, Canada and now Japan. Britain raised the issue…

  • Today is Mother’s Day in the UK, so we went down to see Andrew’s parents and went out to a gorgeous restaurant in Sevenoaks called Loch Fyne. Had a fantastic meal (best mussels I’ve ever had!) and a good day,…

  • Dooce has possibly the funniest photos I’ve ever seen (and cutest ones when it comes to Leta). Click on the picture for more of Chuck’s posing. [* I don’t REALLY mean “abusing”, but you can’t tell me those photos aren’t…

  • Ok, I’ll be honest, I can’t be bothered to blog. It’s Friday night, I need a drink and most of all I need time away from computers for one night. 🙂 So just an interesting thought: OS X is celebrating…

  • I think today, the shadow of the possibility of something resembling Spring may have happened! We had sunlight for more than a couple of hours and while the weather wasn’t exactly warm, it felt much milder and comfortable outside. There…

  • Using iCal, I have 7 different calendars (Work, Internal meetings, Very important work, Tickler File, Personal, Birthdays and holidays) but the most recently-added, the Tickler File, was causing me confusion (I’m easily confused so bear with me here) iCal has…

  • Turns out Microsoft does have a sense of humour. They still have crap packaging, but at least they seem to be able to laugh at themselves, commissioning the “If Microsoft designed the iPod packaging” video I mentioned two weeks ago.…