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At some point in the past few months, I came home to find E shaking at the bottom of the stairs, telling me there were loads of wasps upstairs. I went up to take a look and found probably a dozen of the buggers wriggling about. They were quite obviously not happy, and they were [...]

And so, having not been able to run for longer than a km this last month, I wasn’t terribly confident about the run. In fact, I’d been busy telling everybody who would listen that I would probably run 1km, walk 9km, and be happy with a time under 2 hours.
We got there horrendously early and [...]

Something I wish the chap at Boots had said when I turned up at 09:50 yesterday for my 09:55 opticians appointment : “We’re ever so sorry, but we’re running a bit behind because we’re a optician down. Do you mind waiting half an hour or would you like to reschedule your appointment?”
Something I wish I [...]

There’s something about snow that turns us all into kids again. Thursday morning I was up at sevenish to take Eddie for a walk – we went through the small woods near the house before anybody else had gone out and crunched through the fresh powder.
On Friday we had a small discussion about whether I [...]

We were walking into town near the JobCentre. There was a wall outside about a foot high, but instead of being level, it had a 45 degree angle.
I jumped onto it. “Look”, I said. “This is the sort of thing we will have to watch out for when we come to town with the little [...]

We popped into Woolies today to see what they had left on the last day. They’d arranged a load of shelves about an eighth of the way into the shop so you couldn’t get any further. Everything else was piled into crates, ‘Everything in this crate 50p’ or stacked along the wall. ‘All DVDs £2, [...]

Pete linked a few weeks ago to a service called Dipity, specifically to a user who had entered in all the gigs he had been to, and now had a timeline of said gigs.
Naturally my gig/collectivist brain clicked into gear and I thought that would be really cool. The trouble is, I don’t know all [...]

Police on Patrol get Blackberries
Annoyingly, when I heard this on the radio earlier today they said ‘armed with blackberries’, but that must have been an amusing line for the sake of the radio audience because it’s not in the report. We’ve been discussing Blackberries at work, and although I can see benefits in them, I [...]