My hand didn't hurt that much today thankfully. It's bandaged up tight - I've got fingertips and a bit of thumb poking out. It's my left hand by the way, which makes life especially tricky, being left handed. Eirene…
Matt
2053 posts
- Beautiful fish, Tacky magic
- Second degree burns!
I am typing this with one hand as I have just got back in from a French A&E after doing myself a mystery. Whilst starting to cook tea - a very simple omelet - just after I had got the oil to smoking hot, I dipped a…
Our LodgeWe're staying at Berny Riviere, about an hour or so's drive north east of Paris. It's a resort where several hundred static caravans are parked as well as scores of caravans and tents and a handful of two story lodges.…
Popped into ParisWe popped into Paris for the morning. After a very early start (03:34 rather than 04:45 as I think I cited in my last blog) we arrived, dazed and confused at the ferry port that's snuggled beneath the white cliffs of…
We had the whole pool all to ourselves#/ We are in Dover. After a fairly taxing 7 hours drive, a lot of it spent on the M25 car park, we checked into the hotel and hit the pool. We had the whole pool all to ourselves, so I was able to take a few snaps of…
End of an EraI've just entered the last hour of a job that I've been at for 7 years. What started out as a 6 week contract turned into a 6 month contract, then a year, then two years, then a full time job. To cut a long story short,…
- Having nothing to write about
One of the common comments regarding my blogging proliferation is "Oh, I'd have nothing to write, I don't do enough to have anything to write about." Usually, when someone brings up the subject of blogging, it means…
Meteorite or meteorwrong?Occasionally, our house regurgitates something that one of us have found and brought home. Yesterday, it unearthed this object that my wife found whilst we were 'out and about' once. We can't remember where she found it…
- Auto Pilot Audio
Embedded video **In this blog post, I'm going to talk about my alternate to radio whilst commuting strategies, and how the library now loans audio books. ** It's quite a big week for me. I'm back from finishing my last…
Nun MonktonThe first time I visited the hamlet village of Nun Monkton, 8 miles NWW (not "8 miles north", as wikipedia currently cites it) of York was by accident, during quite a…
- Lazy day, a geocache that was ingenious and a wedding reception
If today could be summarised into 3 things, they would be them. We've also been clothes shopping. New cute o rama baby grows for Annie, new jeans and school shoes for me. The geocache was ingenious because it was…
- 4 minute blog
The party was good. Lots of old faces. Half of ont sofa dot com was playing the drums. Hungarian and Swedish families married. Felix didn't feed Elsie. Poor puppy dog. He gave her bread apparently. Anyhoo. He was playk…
Back from the labGetting these photos sorted was a bit of an uphill struggle. I'll spare you the details, but it involved four attempts by two separate labs. It's amazing how much the supposedly 'high end' industrial scanners can…
Mr & Mrs JonesAbout 3 weeks ago, an old muso friend from FIRE PARTY days, got married. He asked me to go along and take some photos. "I'm not a wedding photographer you know", I told him. "I know" said he "That's pretty much why we…
- stopProcessing="true"
Quite a significant thing has just happened at work. I've processed the last 'new, assigned to my department' brief that I'm ever likely to process for my current employer. For the last few years, I've been a manager of…