My career as a wordle
I’m not usually one to jump on the bandwagon (apologies to Ed Brill, Alan Lepofsky, Wild Bill, and others), but Wordle seemed like a bit of fun so I let it analyse my curriculum vitae. Not a big surprise to …
Category: Personal
More boring info about the kitchen
As I failed to blog about the release of the Notes / Domino 8.5 public beta and the release of Symphony 1.0, let’s turn our attention to the kitchen renovation. The kitchen units have been fitted, the worktop templates have …
19th century fishmongers
Now there’s a bizarre blog post title, but it’s all to do with my family tree (of course). It’s a strange process – I’ve had success getting back to an ancestor born in 1791 but still no luck with someone …
New jam-jar
And about time too, the old one had got quite dirty. Having had a BMW 3 series four times in a row (the navy one, the black one, the sort-of-bluey one, the grey diesel Coupe) I thought it was time …
Kitchen update
Those lovely tiles are gone, the skip is nearly full, we now have french doors (wonder why they’re called that) where a window used to be, there’s a fine layer of dust over everything, and the builders, electrician and plumber …
Six weeks of disruption at home
Having painted nearly every square inch of wall in this house, and having had to carry out some fairly serious remedial work to a number of rooms, all that’s left to do is the kitchen. It’s really rather grim (despite …
Fox watch update
Roxy and Basil (as named by Lauren) put in another appearance this morning. They were last seen in our garden drinking from the bird-bath, but this time they were in the garden beyond. Basil washed Roxy’s ears for a …
Searching for Alice West
The family tree project is going well, but there are still a few gaps to be filled in for the mid and late-19th century. I received an incredible amount of detail from a distant cousin from my grandfather’s side of …
Let’s get political
I have been given permission by the incredibly handsome and well-educated owner of this blog to request the assistance of the numerous visitors who frequent this excellent site. [Darren’s note – I didn’t add that, honestly]
I am Steve, brother …
Phew, that was close
September 2006… I had a meeting in Aberdeen and then Matt, Kemal and I journeyed to Edinburgh in Matt’s car. When Matt dropped me off at my hotel, I picked my bag up out of the boot (trunk if …
New kid on the blog
I think I’ve used that rather poor-quality play on words before. Anyway, my older brother Florida Steve (who might have had a more prolific career as a guest blogger here) is now the proud owner of his own WordPress blog…
Visitors in the garden
I was working at the Camberley office today when I heard an all-too-familiar noise. I looked out the window and saw our most frequent-visiting vixen calling her mate who trotted up to her a few seconds later. The female was …