I’m Having A Girl!
That got your attention, didn’t it? Last week, Tiger, one of our cats, died suddenly. He had gone to the vet for a routine dental clean and never woke up…The interim post-mortem report came through today and it looks like it was heart disease. So, we’ve all been very sad this week… Well, George doesn’t [...]
Translating Peter Rabbit (hieroglyph edition)
Skip ahead to the translation here. I’ve added some notes about this to my Posterous I’ve been learning Egyptian hierogylphs for nearly a year now at the Egypt Exploration Society in London. So far I’ve only translated texts provided by my course tutor that have been either texts from monuments or specially written texts to [...]
George
It’s been ages since I’ve written anything, but, as you can imagine, George is keeping my hands full. I am on Twitter if you want to keep up with the minutiae of my life. If not, here’s George.
In The Beginning
One day in summer 1994, Gareth came round to mine to hang out for the day. We were both working exclusively as TV presenters at the time, therefore we regularly had days that were just ‘hanging out’. He told me how he’d just got a job on BBC Radio 5, a technology programme, and told [...]
Goodbye 2007
I’ve been resolutely on holiday for the past two weeks. I’ve made a point of avoiding pretty much everyone and everything in a bid to ‘relax’. Brian and I are now packing up ‘Christmas’ at his and will hop in the car and head back to London later today. It fills me with both excitement [...]
My 2007
On first thought, I’d say that 2007 was fairly uneventful. My past few months have consisted of me being ill and feeling like I’ve done very little other than try and get healthy again… Then, when I properly think about it, I realise that the whole year has been MENTAL! January Me and Charlie Brooker [...]
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Like probably every single American my age, ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas‘ was not only the best Peanuts show, but the best Christmas show as well. And that’s saying something when there was also Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer on every year as well. Well, just this morning Brian phoned whilst he was out looking for [...]
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Like probably every single American my age, ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas‘ was not only the best Peanuts show, but the best Christmas show as well. And that’s saying something when there was also Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer on every year as well. Well, just this morning Brian phoned whilst he was out looking for [...]
Ageing, the World Service and 70s Cops
Phew! Once again I’ve been running on adrenaline for the past few weeks. No good. No good at all. After I got over about 6 weeks of illness earlier this autumn, I’m once again on the verge of illness – some annoying flu-thing. Grrrrr. I’ve been up to some interesting things, including working on a [...]
Tory MP Steals Bandwidth Shock
I started following this yesterday, assuming that it would be very short-lived albeit hilarious… But it’s still happening, so figure I should let you know about it. A while ago a guy decided to test the macro function on his new camera by taking an extreme close-up of a pound coin. (click for larger) Fine. [...]
Cat Update
I know some of you just visit my blog for the cat stuff (*ahem*lloyd*ahem*). It’s been sorely lacking lately and I’m sorry. I’ve been sitting on my bed doing some work. Tiger is curled up on my lap and Rocky is sitting up next to me just staring… Tiger… Rocky… Awwwwww….
1350th Day
Today we’ve been in Iraq longer than the United States was in World War II. In the over three and a half years after the Americans finally entered World War 2, the allies defeated Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese Empire, suicide bombers and all. How friggen great were our grandparents (my grandfather is mentioned in [...]
OneGoalLimited
Please read my previous post entitled UK Mobile Scam… I’ve been getting several hits a day from people searching for OneGoalLimited. Clearly, a lot of people are being scammed by this company. In the comments section of my previous post I’ve included information I’ve got from a WHOIS search, including the name, email address, work [...]
OneGoalLimited
Please read my previous post entitled UK Mobile Scam… I’ve been getting several hits a day from people searching for OneGoalLimited. Clearly, a lot of people are being scammed by this company. In the comments section of my previous post I’ve included information I’ve got from a WHOIS search, including the name, email address, work [...]
Checking It Twice
It’s coming up to that time again. As a self-confessed window shopping addict I’ve got a pretty good idea of the kinds of cool pressies out there. For those of you who hate shopping, I’ve created a little list of some of the best things I’ve seen, so that you can simply click and purchase. [...]
Achtung! Cat Blog Alert!
Tiger still doesn’t have much hair. It might take about 18 months for him to get his full coat. So when the temperature drops outside he’s not a happy little guy. I decided that he might benefit from a jumper. He’s too tiny to fit into a store bought one… so I cut the fingers [...]
