Two things I hate

Camping has great appeal to me. I like the idea of the great outdoors, freedom and temporary self-sufficiency but in my experience the practice of camping is always an unmitigated disaster. The last time was a couple of years ago...

Dreaming of Lager

On Monday morning I resolved not to drink alcohol for a while; a detox of sorts if you will. Well, I presume my body and mind were staging a protest when last night they conspired to make me dream of...

Randolph's Leap

Today was a very nice day for swimming in the River Findhorn...

Favourite Shoes

Anyone who hung out for any time with me in 2003 / 2004 will recognise the shoe below. I bought them and wore them literally into the ground - there is ("is" because I kept them for sentimental reasons) little...

Kitty's social network

Dear Anna-Lisa & Stuart, So, Kitty was bored and decided she wanted to do some social networking and i suggested this site "catster". well, what fun she had looking at all those potential friends; she wanted a piece of the...

Essential French phrases

Gemma sent me these by email, not sure of the origin. Pretty funny.* Je viens de londres. - I am from London * Merci de me depanner - Thanks for your help * Ou est la gare? - Where is...

Outsourcing

This is a awesome and funny column in Esquire by A. J. Jacobs who wanted to outsource his life. An example,One task for which Honey is thankful is emailing my colleagues. I've begun to refuse to communicate with them directly....

Gemma's Photo Journal

Gemma now has a photo journal. This is the result of a new camera and back to back holidays in Catalonia and Scotland. Her photographs are pretty neat, go take a look....

Dear Anna-Lisa

Hi A-L, Hope you are having fun in sunny California. I have to say though you are missing some classic Ted action here in cold / rainy / windy ("It's going to be a beautiful summer") Edinburgh. For instance, tonight...

Blissfully unaware

I've escaped the city for Christmas and with it have been two or three days behind the News. Went through to Inverness last night and boght all my Christmas presents in an hour or so. Stress free Christmas shopping at...

Amusing Journals

I read lots of RSS enabled sites, for all kinds of reasons. Two recent additions which make me laugh are Anna-Lisa's friend The Mormon Pope and Giltter for Brains. A-L alerted me to the latter also. She is working towards...

An early bed

For the last few days I've had a nasty sore throat which has been interfering with life. Actually it might be more than a few days that I've had it for now that I think about it, maybe a week....

What would Jesus Drive?

I just remembered that the other night I was round at a friend's 'temporary abode' and was flicking through an old issue of the New Yorker. There was an article, What would Jesus test-drive?, which is an amusing (and mocking...

Dangerous Exercise

Thanks to Gregor for sending me this link exhibiting the danger of running machines. This happened to me at the Craigendarroch Hotel in Ballater something like 18 years ago. I appreciate that I ought not to have been using the...

Couple of weeks to spare?

Apparently (via Metafilter) the average person spends 336 hours (or 20,160 minutes for those who kiss in smaller units than hours) of life sucking face. As to the origins of the practise, The earliest and most repulsive possible origin of...

Bored this weekend?

If you have nothing to do this weekend you could participate in the 2004 Masturbate-A-Thon. Yeah, seemingly it is a real thing. The actual event is in South of Market San Francisco but you can participate 'in spirit' from anywhere...