Yesterday I was volunteering in the Reminiscence Project at Merlewood Elderly Home and the theme was Music. At the centre I got into a conversation with a woman called Gay. From talking about the birth of motorways we somehow got onto Computer keyboards and why the QWERTY combination exists. For those not in the computer [...]
Archive for January, 2008
The Key to the Keyboard
January 31, 2008Founders Fantasy Dinner Party Resurrected Part One
January 28, 2008Inspired by Confessandbehanged’s fabulous saga, I have felt inspired to create my own. However, I am not writing my blogs in advance enough to write anything of real quality for your amusement, so what else to do apart from dig up something from my story archive. I was surfing through my facebook groups and remembered [...]
Spectacles and Sportsmanship
January 24, 2008I know I wrote about the Tennis Australian Open last week, but I want to boost my hits! And what better way to do that than name a player who is in the lime-light so heavily at the moment, Maria Sharapova. A good tennis player and apparently the most exquisite beauty on the circuit since fellow Russian [...]
Nosey Exposee
January 21, 2008What should we prioritise covering when we’re cold? Obviously the torso is usually a good plan. After all, it is where most of you is. Also, head is important: after all, the sole purpose we have hair is to stop our heads from losing heat as the brain uses the most energy of all the [...]
I solemnly pledge not to write any Teeth puns.
January 17, 2008I’m going to see my dentist tomorrow. Ain’t life grand? Everyone hates the dentists and this is despite what some people would say for the sake of being “unique”. Even I used to pretend I liked going to the dentist, but that was before I realised that asserting my individuality in such a way was in [...]
A Tsonga ’bout Murray
January 14, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7184683.stm
Oh, woe, oh woe, a poem upon a blog,
And worst of all on Great Saundini’s Bog,
But worry not my friends, it shan’t last long
At least the rhyming won’t be very strong.
The gods, have looked unfavourably once more
And thus, the cause of my latest uproar:
In the land of Dingos, a penny’s dropped,
Andy Murray our British Braveheart’s lost.
And [...]
The Sale Shopping Code
January 10, 2008I’ve never understood clothes shopping. Partially because as a petulant child I used to rebel against my mother by refusing to enter them in the first place. However, there comes a time in every man’s life when he meets someone special, and when that kind of thing happens you sometimes have to give up certain prejudices [...]
Chain Fiction 12
January 8, 2008Anyone remember this?
Here’s the link to Part One: http://matt-boothman.livejournal.com/8136.html?mode=reply
And here’s the last link: http://gareththinks.blogspot.com/2007/12/chain-flic-11.html
Here’s where we left off if you can’t be bothered to read all the others: …It was around about then that i first created my world of escape, and a little town i called London, and Gareth and Wil and Matt and [...]
Who da Mr Man?
January 7, 2008The holiday’s over, term resumes.
I’ve just got over the Sunday blues.
I’m very glad the first and worst day is almost over, as I’ve had to hand in a whole heap of essays (yes, two does constitute a heap!). Now I can relax and enjoy the fact I’ve got only 4 hours a week of lectures. [...]
Love and Family Values
January 3, 2008Well, it’s the first post of 2008 and I’m already tired… I had to get up at 5:45 this morning and go to Heathrow. Anyway, I was on Likeness, the Facebook application recently and did a quiz called Priorities in Life. If you want to do it, the link is here: http://apps.facebook.com/likeness/quiz.php?q=17&retake=1&quizCreatorId=-1
My answers, going from most [...]
