Poppies and Fighting

November 11, 2010

On 11/11 I always think of my grandad, who fought in the First World War. He volunteered in 1914 and was invalided out a few months before the Battle of the Somme two years later. But then I think of the two minutes silence and our contemplation of  “the fallen”. Except they didn’t ‘fall’, they [...]

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Messing with Thesis

October 10, 2010

No. I’m not ruining my brother’s laser photonics PHd that resides in Manchester Uni library. I’m trying to figure out how Thesis 1.8 works. A long test period beckons…

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My Amazing Life

September 26, 2010

A real crazy counter-culture type day. Fixed the kitchen stools, mended toilet seat, ate apple crumble, watched Harry Potter film with kids.

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A Bit of Needle

September 23, 2010

Damn it all, I can’t torture the kids with my old vinyl. One of them has sabotaged the stylus. Had planned to force The White Album on them.

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Ebay Lurking

September 16, 2010

Spending too much time on Ebay looking at octave mandolins and old Broadwood pianos. So far have only bought a Star Wars stormtooper figure.

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Wood News

August 10, 2010

At last cured from my addiction of buying stringed instruments on Ebay. Now buying trees online. Could make guitars/dulcimers down the line.

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N16 Summer Morning

May 24, 2010

The Stoke Newington air is full of flake-like seeds floating in the sunlight. A closer look suggests foam fallout from a mass pillow fight.

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Lame Regis

February 3, 2010

One of the kids broke my Subbuteo Cyrille Regis. I had to superglue his ankles (Cyrille, not my son). Rest of the 1979 WBA team are missing. Possibly the other WBA Subbuteo players were kidnapped by 1:72 scale Afrika Korps, commandeered by my cousin Rob in an early 80s skirmish. Cyrille lives on my desk, [...]

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