Getting there, bit by bit

November 3, 2007

I think I’ve pretty much imported all of the old posts, including the old Blog-City posts that until now had been stuck on my laptop. The formatting’s all gone to hell in a handbasket, but when I have a quiet moment one day I might start trying to fix at least some of the more […]

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Hello world!

November 3, 2007

Time to import old posts… the excitement!

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Slowly, slowly move-y bloggy

November 3, 2007

OK, so it’s time. I have to move away from Blogware at some point, and the pain may as well start now whilst I’m already too busy to blog much. I have disabled anonymous comments on old post, turned off comments on new posts, and set all other comments to “moderate all”, so that I […]

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Jack o' Lanterns 2008

October 29, 2007

This year's carvings: My witch and cat familiar. Kev's Jack Skellington. I love carving pumpkins. This year we got a proper carving set with tiny saws, a plastic 'drill' and all sorts. Made it much, much easier than trying to do it with a kitchen knife. Probably safer, too. Me working on transferring the hand-drawn […]

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One tooth none the richer

October 22, 2007

It's been a while since I've whined about my wisdom tooth, but it's that time again. It's been shifting about since April last year, on and off, with a series of minor infections, aches, and general unpleasantness. The other day I caught a look at it in the mirror, and frankly, it's just sitting there, […]

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Stardust – a little slice of wonderfulness

October 21, 2007

Regular readers will know that I'm what you might call a bit of a fan of Mr Neil, so it should come as no surprise to discover that I've been rather looking forward to Stardust, the film version of Mr Neil's book of the same name. It's been a while since I last read the […]

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CnV weirdness

October 15, 2007

I just noticed that the emails from Blogware informing me that a comment has gone into moderation have been caught in Gmail's spam trap, and that there is no easy way for me to look at any comment beyond the 50th most recent. I fear this means that some of you may have left comments […]

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The right (silk) stuff

October 14, 2007

As well as trying hard to find exactly the right shade of burgundy card for the invitations, I've also been trying to find exactly the right silks for my wedding dress. Having finally settled on a dressmaker, who not only can do exactly what I want but can also do it at a reasonable price […]

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Somewhere between here and there

October 11, 2007

I'm writing this on my old Palm Vx, which I dug up the last time I went home. In nearly pristine condition, it's a relic from my web designer days, when I needed to keep track of an awful lot of meetings and was given this by my boss to do so. As soon as […]

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Swishes, swashes and swashbuckling

September 22, 2007

After finally getting all the right shades of paper and card to make our invitations, the next thing to get sorted was the wording and the typesetting. If you've ever bought a wedding magazine, and I pity you if you have, you'll have noticed that they tend to come with half a forest's worth of […]

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The post that would be longer if it wasn't so short

September 1, 2007

Off for nearly 3 weeks, so no blogging during that period. Back after hols. Yay! Hols!

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Weirdipedia

August 20, 2007

This morning, just before I woke up, I had a dream that my Wikipedia page was up for deletion, and that I was making the case for keeping it by saying that 83 pages had linked to it and that it's bad form to wilfully rot links. I woke up somewhat bemused by my dream, […]

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Stories from beyond the veil

August 17, 2007

I wasn't very sure whether I should blog this publicly or not, because I fear it might actually be quite boring unless you're really into making wedding veils. But it has been pointed out to me that you are the best judges of what you find interesting, not me. So I'm bunging it up, and […]

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Stationery problem solved

August 16, 2007

So, a couple of weeks ago, I realised that the burgundy card I had bought to make the invitations with was, well, the wrong colour. This was particularly painful, given that I thought I'd finally cracked it, just a few days before. Honestly, I felt like I'd been round every art supply shop in London, […]

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Unexpected excitedness

August 13, 2007

I just booked the register office (apparently, it's not registry, as I always thought it was) for our wedding in February, and had a sudden and unexpected burst of nerves and overwhelming excitement as I did so. Squeee!! Now that I'm starting to get tangible evidence of impending nuptials, I'm starting to get much more […]

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