With our family headcount expanding from two to three, it was time to put things into perspective. Time – here is the operative word (probably the key theme of this blog and perhaps ultimately the reason I have to keep a record of so many random occurrences in my life, online for the world to […]
Flying Solo
Nine days – a great deal can happen in almost two working weeks. In this case, I am referring to the time between the official UK release of the latest Star Wars film and the date I eventually caught up on the epic sci-fi space opera. Pav had wanted to catch the film over the […]
It’s A Trap!
I should have seen this film, the film of the year at 00:01 on Thursday 17th December at the BFI IMAX in Waterloo. As already made clear, this was postponed until further notice. We finally got around to watching the latest instalment in the space opera franchise some 16 days, 17 hours, 14 minutes later […]
The Power Of The Force
People are often surprised when I explain that I do not own a games console and therefore no longer play any form of video games. Their expectations of me fail to meet the reality and I suppose, being a geek I should have some gaming fetish of some kind. I do not. The days of […]
Monday 28th August 2006
While I was struggling to find anything to write about on Friday, even to some extent on Saturday evening. I now find myself with two full days of events to report on. Let me first go back to Saturday evening. I decided to watch Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope on Sky. At […]
Saturday 18th March 2006
For the first time in many months I was seriously considering not updating my blog on a Friday night. This was not because I had other plans, going out for a night on the tiles. Nothing like that at all. I seriously had nothing to report, nothing interesting to write about, which is so unlike […]
Friday 20th May 2005
Thursdays, what is your view on them? Can you have a view on the day of the week? Perhaps not, because one Thursday, will never be like another. They stick in my mind for being crucial linkage between the middle and end of the week. The strongest example of this, is from my placement. I […]