Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jul 13th, 2008
I woke up with firm intentions to stop procrastinating and get into the library and do an honest day’s work on my cretinously late dissertation proposal.
I can’t help with the shopping
I told the number 1 shopper, who likes my company but who has noticed that we spend more when I “help”.
First, I’ll just read a [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 1st, 2008
I discovered today that Samuel Morse is yet another famous person who lived within walking distance of our home in London. Coincidentally, I walked past his former home, marked with a blue plaque, then, a little later, I read in the The Times that the SOS signal was 100 years old today.
That’s . . . [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 27th, 2008
I have maintained for all the years we’ve had a home in London that we couldn’t possibly move until we’d been to Paris for lunch. As we live a short distance from the new Eurostar terminal at St.Pancras, the journey time — now 2 hours and 15 minutes — is short enough to permit one [...]
Posted in Misc on May 28th, 2008
London is now said to be a very wired place where the broadband future can be glimpsed. Somehow, I feel it hasn’t quite arrived yet.
Yes, we use the BBC’s iPlayer to watch programs we’ve missed, but not very often. It could work. I pay only £18 a month for a 24Mb broadband link, so bandwidth [...]
Posted in Misc on May 25th, 2008
AA Gill has a fine piece about St.Paul’s Cathedral in the latest Sunday Times. In a city with many iconic buildings, it is the most iconic of all — hence its prominence in the photograph at the head of this blog. I confess I have yet to visit it. It’s one of those things that’s [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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