The pile of empty glass bottles in the garage was starting to overflow its box, so I decided it was time to drop it off at the recycling point on my way to work. I placed the box in the … Continue reading
I can’t remember exactly who bought me The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan, or when, but I definitely started reading it around May 2014. Since then, I have worked my way through the entire series, on and off, … Continue reading
Back in December, a planned Saturday morning geocaching walk ended up turning into an eight mile canal walk. Last week, we decided to just go all in from the outset, and decided to walk from Farnborough to Woking along the … Continue reading
If you listened to Uborkast last year then you may remember me mentioning my intention to try out some gig photography. Well, it took me a little while, but I finally got round to it! On Saturday night I took … Continue reading
Some thoughts on re-reading my blog archives from 15 years ago: It’s all very low-tech. At the time it was just a manually-updated page, so there were no permalinks, comments, categories, tags, RSS feeds or anything like that. My blog … Continue reading
I’ve been wearing glasses for about twenty-five years, and sometimes contact lenses, though rarely at the same time. My prescription has remained fairly constant for the last ten or fifteen years, and so it’s been an impediment that hasn’t given … Continue reading
When we first moved into this house ten years ago, we had no furniture, so we spent the first week making do with the dregs that the previous occupant had left behind. As a result, there was a certain amount … Continue reading
Karen and I seem to be inexorably drawn towards canals. Plans that we make often end up gaining a canal element of their own accord. And so it is that our Saturday morning walk turned into a Saturday morning canal … Continue reading