Tun!
As alert readers will have spotted, I've moved to Sheffield.I've been prompted by a post elsewhere to consider the plight of the Tun, which is suffering low turnout since I left.I was intending to come...
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Keris
At Novacon, where Omega tells me that we've lost Keris (keristor). I discover subsequently that DC mentioned it on Twitter earlier, as did Chris on LJ. more here.
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Chris Croughton's Funeral
As some of you will be aware, keristor's funeral is on Wednesday 30th, 2pm in Olney.I'll be driving down, aiming to leave Halfway at around eleven.Would any Sheffield types want a lift? I can pick...
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Chris Croughton's Funeral...
keristor's funeral was today and, by any possible measure, was excellent. I didn't get the chance to count properly, but there were in the region of seventy or eighty of us there, and about 90% of the...
View ArticleVAT, HMRC, and their employees Moe, Curly and Larry.
Letter from the VAT man to me, late September (paraphrased from memory):We have determined that you owe us £1,057.00 -- please pay up pronto, melonfarmer, or we'll haul your sorry ass into court.Early...
View ArticleQuotation...
... from Bach's "Christmas Oratorio".Within yon gloomy manger liesThe LORD Who reigns above the skies:Within the stall where beasts have fedThe Virgin-born doth lay His head.* * * * *How shall I fitly...
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Sorting out the Library
I'm trying to sort out the library, to get all the books out of boxes and onto shelves in more-or-less the right order, so that the room is usable in time for our new-years-eve dinner party.Meanwhile,...
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New Years Eve Party
We had a new year's eve party. It was really very good.Thanks to Ian for the photo.Working anti-clockwise from the right-hand corner there was Julia, Jane, Guinness, a gap for Ian (behind the camera),...
View ArticleWhat we did today
My car, as featured in this icon and which I've owned new from June 2002, is being retired. It's nearly ten years old, it's done 160,000 miles, and it wants about £1200 spent on it in order to get...
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Page 45
Meme from robling_t via nellorat:Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.Not the first sentence on that page, but the sentence best placed...
View ArticleNew Car
Well, I haven't posted for ages. What's happened recently? We got a new car.As previously reported, we ordered a new car -- and on January 20th we collected it.It's a Toyota Verso S. Like its...
View ArticleParis
I muck around with computers, and sometimes people ask me to muck around with their computers, and then they pay me for it.A client with a London office of about forty users, has eight more users in an...
View ArticleStag Do Number 1, April 14th.
As some of you will be aware, I'll be getting married in May.In order to fall in with the traditions of my culture, I'm going to have some sort of stag do.Since I have friends in more than one...
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Weather forecast: Central, Tayside & Fife
From the Met Office website:Weather forecast: Central, Tayside & FifeSaturday:Early morning frost soon melting away to leave a fine dry day with some bright or sunny spells. Although it will be a...
View ArticleStag Do Number 2, April 22nd
Some of you will have read about my plans for stag do number 1, an afternoon of beer in Sheffield.Plans are now in place for stag do number 2, a day of culture in London.Meet at 10:30 on April 22nd in...
View ArticleStag Do Number 1, Saturday 14th -- instructions
The time is rolling around for stag do number 1, an afternoon of beer in Sheffield, so here are your instructions.We'll meet at The Sheffield Tap, the pub that's built into Sheffield Station, at around...
View ArticleStag day two, tomorrow
Probable timetable tomorrow:10:30 - Meet in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern12:30 - leave and walk to Borough Market for lunch13:30 - go to The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret14:30 - go...
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That wedding
So yesterday, julia_winolj and I got married.Julia and I would like to thank a whole bunch of people, people who have grasped what kind of people we are and what we were trying to achieve.The staff at...
View ArticleMy LJ is ten years old.
Today, my LJ is ten years old. It was created on 2002/05/09 at 12:49:42 BST. I am user number 554349.I have made 3396 Journal Entries (so this is the 3397th), received 19640 comments and posted 16,079...
View ArticleWedding Photographs now available
Official wedding photographs are now online and available for ordering at http://www.sheffieldweddingphotographer.com/ -- ask me for password.
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