Chocolate and Vodka

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Sorry to everyone who has left a comment here only for it not to show up - quite a lot of comments got caught in by Akismet, but the notification emails then got caught up in my Gmail spam trap, so I didn’t realise that there were so many comments awaiting moderation.
If you’ve left a […]

A tangle with gravity

I wrote this post yesterday afternoon with the intention of posting it on Strange Attractor, but technical problems have stopped me from being able to post it there at all. Horizon was, by the way, fab.
Whilst Kev and I were at the gym this morning, we caught an interview with Dr Brian Cox on BBC […]

Midnight roadworks, part 2

Just before 8pm this evening, it started again. Out came the angle grinders, the pneumatic drills, the machines that rip up the tarmac, and the lorries to take it away. God knows how long it’s going to go on for tonight.

I rang Islington council this morning to complain. A very polite chap took notes of […]

Midnight roadworks

Kevin and I are both getting progressively more and more exhausted as we burn the candle at both ends, trying to get the wedding sorted, and get all the work done that we must before the Big Day. Getting a full night’s sleep - preferably eight or nine hours - is essential, but difficult.
Last […]

Creative Business in the Digital Era

At last, applications for the Creative Business seminar that I’ve been working on, examining new business models based around giving away creative works, are open!

If you are interested in coming along, you can read more on the site, or download the application pack.

Ways of writing

Vince blogs that he is changing the way that he writes, moving from a strictly linear method to a more flexible scene-based method:
I’ve […] tried a different approach toward writing this book. In the past I have been religiously linear. The first draft has been written as it reads, from beginning to end. This time, […]

Where’s my “I do”?

Kevin and I both agree that the most important part of our wedding day is the ceremony itself, wherein we pledge to love each other for the rest of our lives. As ours is neither a church nor a civil ceremony (the legal obligation having been discharged the day before), we can have a ceremony […]

A meme to keep you happy

Been ages since I’ve joined in with a silly meme, so here goes. From WhatIFoundThere, the Dadaist rock band album cover meme:
Instructions:
1. The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.
2. The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations page is the title […]

Best wedding acceptance yet!

Thank you Lloyd!

Honestly, I have to say that it’s been really hard to figure out who to invite to the day and who to invite to the evening and I’m still filled with fear that I will have forgotten someone important. I just wish everyone could come!

Oh dear, I seem to have discovered Seesmic

It’s funny how you can take a look at something like Seesmic, and really not get it… until one day, someone shows you the way and suddenly, it all makes sense, it all comes together. Seesmic is about banter, chit chat, conversation. And when you get into it, and you start talking to people, (and […]