Retroblog 3: Jokes!

“Why was the joke not very funny? I can’t think of the punchline! Oh Well. Hi there and welcome to my latest pointless blog, improving the reading of young children of the world everywhere. Well, not really. As most of you who read this know me, you’ll also know that humour is not my strongest [...]

God save the Queen

 I saw the Queen for the first time yesterday, which was actually some achievement considering I’ve lived in Windsor for over two decades (i.e. my entire life) and even held a summer job at the castle. There was a street procession through Windsor Town Centre welcoming the new French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his French model [...]

Retroblog 2: Patience

“Since my last blog was more successful than I could have ever possibly imagined (a whole 2 people read it!), and I say that seriously, I have decided to write another. This one being about patience. Someone, at some point must have said, because it’s a well known saying, anyway he said that: “Patience is [...]

Good “Good” Friday

Obviously Easter is fast approaching and it always gets me into a thoughtful frame of mind. Growing up, Good Friday has always been a bad day, with Easter good, giving a type of Ying/Yang relationship. However, in growing I’ve always seen Good Friday as the central day in the Christian calender, a day commemorating Jesus’ death. Yet [...]

Retroblog 1: MP3 Players

 

I think that it is important to air an opinion about life in general and that any person’s perspective is always valid, although not necessarily interesting. So that’s why I’m writing in this space, to give anyone who cares an interesting insight into my perspectives, although possibly this piece could be more attributed to human [...]

A Landscape Portrait

I was down at the Villa Rosa yesterday. An Italian restaurant, having a fairly awkward meeting with a couple my fiancee knew from an Andean (Bolivian) music module she did for her degree last year. While we were there though I noticed a picture on the wall. It was a detailed and accurate picture of [...]

Retro-Blogging

Does anyone remember the days before Facebook? They came along and slapped me in the face with a black banana skin yesterday. My sister recently joined Bebo and was showing me the quizzes she created. Once upon a time, this time two years ago, I was a Beboholic too. Before everyone flooded into Facebook world [...]

My Male Maiden-name

Apologies to all for the late post today, I was busy being bored to death by Strauss’ very slow moving Salome in the Convent Garden Opera House last night. It was an okay production, great singers, but it was a-tonal. Not good for a night out in my opi-onion. Still it was a lovely evening, avec [...]

Fair-weather Weathermen

So, the weather, having for a long while decided to be late spring in temperature, has once again made a u-turn and decided to be early winter again. It gets very frustrating, particularly because you never know what to wear (Me, moaning about clothes? I’ve been spending too much time with my fiancee!). Shorts and T-Shirt [...]