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May 1st, 2008
11:23 am
Happy 60th Birthday to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) geodhinn
For anyone who doesn't know him, geodhinn is Gemma's (wychylips) dad.
For posting this photo, I guess that I owe Geoff a beer or two now!
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April 8th, 2008
06:13 pm - Hell on Earth - talk
At the Moot With No Point Name, tomorrow (Wednesday) night:
Apr 9 - Jeremy Harte - Hell on Earth: Devils in the Mediaeval Landscape
Behind the scenes of mediaeval life, a vicious secret struggle took place between demons and the men of God. Though saints might drive the last devil out from the ruins of the pagan races, the fight went on against the old enemy with the cross raised high on mountains and steeples to carry holy war into the kingdom of the air. But the demons never quite went away, flickering like shadows among the wild spaces of a half-cultivated countryside. A stranger met on the road might turn into almost anything, and even good and evil sometimes seemed confounded. "Is it surprising that we turn vicious?" said the well-dressed young man with one warped boot. "After all, you demonise us." An eerie landscape of marvel and miracle unfolds in Jeremy Harte's talk.
The Moot with No Name meets Alternate Wednesdays, 7.30 for 8pm.
Upstairs, Devereux pub near Temple tube station. £2.
Opposite the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand (near Aldwych) is
a Tudor-style pub, the George. The Devereux is down the alley next to
this. See map at http://tinyurl.com/cp7u2
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April 3rd, 2008
01:52 pm - Interview Candidate
We're interviewing people for a couple of jobs. One candidate didn't show up, so my boss phones him. Boss says, "Where are you?", candidate replies, "Sitting outside in my car. The interview isn't until 1:30". Boss replies "It's now quarter to two". Turns out that he forgot to change his phone to British Summer Time. That gave us a good laugh.
He's here now, so off to conduct interview.
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March 6th, 2008
08:12 pm - The Colour of Magic
It looks like Sky have made another Terry Pratchett film:
http://www1.sky.com/colourofmagic/index.html
Am really looking forward to this. Looks like a good cast, including David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry and Christopher Lee (voicing Death).
Apparently they're making Going Postal next. I'd prefer one with Granny Weatherwax or Death, like Witches Abroad or Mort.
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February 16th, 2008
10:57 am - Back to the Future
Morgan has designed a retro-futuristic hydrogen powered car, which they're calling the Life Car. With its streamlined design, it looks like a 1930's design for a twenty-first century vehicle. They're officially announcing it at the Geneva Auto Show next month.
More info from Wired.
I'd love something like this, but I suspect that it will be well out of my price range. I really would like to own a Morgan one day.
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December 15th, 2007
11:36 am - A Day Out in Devon
If only....
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December 14th, 2007
11:10 pm - Someone's been drinking all of my beer
( See here... )
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10:35 am - Social Networking for the Elderly
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December 9th, 2007
07:57 pm - Scan
For those who haven't already seen wychylips livejournal, she had her first scan at 14 weeks on Friday. I was going to take the day off work as holiday, but we've got a deadline next week so I decided to work from home. I took my laptop to work on Thursday to set it up and then spent Friday morning sitting in our comfortable reclining chair with our laptop ("my laptop and my comfy chair", says Gemma).
In the afternoon I went down to the Whittington Hospital to meet Gemma. I carried on working with laptop in the waiting room and was told off by Gemma for taking calls on my mobile from work.
We were relieved when the scan showed that there was actually a baby in there. It was hard to make out which end was which, but after a while I could make out its head, body and limbs, complete with little fingers, and see its spine. Her next scan is at 20 weeks (on 25th January) by which time we might be able to tell whether it's a boy or a girl. We've been unable, so far, to think of any boys names which we like.
( See the scan here )
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November 27th, 2007
06:29 pm - Life Membership?
I've just had a letter from the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) saying that my Life Membership is due for renewal on 01/01/2008. I thought that the point of a 'Life Membership' is that it's for life. I shall have to query this since, as far as I can tell, I'm still alive.
Do they know something I don't?
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November 16th, 2007
03:30 pm - Tim Burton to make Alice In Wonderland fiml
Tim Burton has announced that he's going to make a 3D version of Alice in Wonderland. I wonder if it will be in IMax. He's also making a full length version of his early short film Frankenweenie - about a kid who brings his dead dog back to life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7098063.stm
I hope that Alice will turn out to be as good as it sounds.
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November 11th, 2007
07:51 pm
Since everyone else seems to be doing it...
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August 6th, 2007
11:55 am - Great British Beer Festival
Is anyone planning on going to the Great British Beer Festival this week?
http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=195496
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July 21st, 2007
02:41 pm
I just popped into Brent Cross shopping centre for a few minutes. Whilst I was in there, it started to rain. Since I was on the bike, I decided to wait until the weather improved. Whilst wandering around the shops, I saw that John Lewis were selling the new Harry Potter book for just £5. It was £10.99 in W.H. Smiths and is £8.99 on Amazon, so that's a bargain. So that's made Gemma very happy.
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July 6th, 2007
06:56 pm - House hunting
We've put our flat on the market and are hoping to buy a house. We haven't really been house hunting yet, but we saw that a Victorian house was up for sale in a village where some of our friends live. So today I went to view it. The house was a bit smaller than I'd hoped, but it is larger than our flat, with the possibility of converting the loft into another large bedroom. The garden is long, but very narrow, but at least we'd have a garden. Importantly (for me, at least) there is a good pub right opposite with real ale and a weekly bikers night. I expect that many of you have drunk in there at some time. The downside is that the house is fairly expensive and a long way from London. It's too far to commute into work daily, but I might be able to arrange with my boss to work from home two or three days a week, as there are already people in the office who do this. I have been told that it's an ideal place to bring up kids, er, I mean cats. Oh, there's also a fairly impressive rockery, which is a big plus!
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June 25th, 2007
03:48 pm - The Italian Job
We've just booked flights to Italy for wychylips birthday. We're flying out to Pisa at the end of August for a week. The plan is to divide our time between Pisa and Firenze (Florence). If the weather is particularly good, we may also visit the coast.
Can anyone recommend places that we should visit, things to do, places to stay or eat, or tourist traps to avoid?
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June 8th, 2007
12:06 pm - How Triumph Motorcycles are made
Hilarious mockumentary about the manufacture of the Triumph Rocket III (worlds largest production motorcycle)
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May 30th, 2007
10:19 pm - LOLCode
You geeks out there might find this somewhat amusing: http://lolcode.com
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May 8th, 2007
07:02 pm - Russian Cake Art
These are simply incredible. Everything is edible, it says: http://englishrussia.com/?p=851
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May 2nd, 2007
05:02 pm - The Marriage of Peppapig
On Friday, we drove up to the Cumbria for Mawgen peppapig and Chris's wedding. We'd booked into a B&B in a tiny hamlet near to Carlisle. I'd put the address into my satnav which then tried to insist that it was in the middle of an empty field. After driving around this field several times, we discovered that it was actually about two and a half miles away. The B&B itself was very pleasant, with a large bedroom and comfortable bed. We had wanted to go to a Mexican restaurant in nearby Penrith in the evening, but this turned out to be fully booked so we ended up in Penriths other eatery, which was a really good Italian restaurant.
On Saturday morning, we had a hearty breakfast and then drove off to the Church. Fortunately the satnav didn't let us down this time and we were there early. sveinn, lazuleye, m31andy and illarane were already there, proving that pagans don't work to Pagan Standard Time when it comes to attending church.
I'm never fond of church weddings and the sermon wasn't particularly pleasant, at least from a pagan point of view. The reception at Dalston Hall was lovely, with great food, although someone should tell them that saying 'vegetarian option' on the menu is so very 1980's.
Here are the photos
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