Life's about experiences. These are mine.
So you may have noticed that it has been raining virtually non-stop for the last couple of weeks and is predicted to continue for a while yet. All this water has to go somewhere and the capacity of rivers is not enough to hold it all. This leads to flooding on a scale I haven’t …
For Christmas some friends of ours gave us some Stilton. However, this was no ordinary cheese, this was Colston Bassett Stilton from Neal’s Yard Dairy. It tastes wonderful but there is simply too much to eat so we have to find other uses for it, in this case making Broccoli and Stilton soup. Lots of …
For the last few years we have met with the same friends on New Year’s Eve. We do the same things as everyone else: we eat, we drink, we laugh and generally have a good time but sometime on New Year’s Eve 2011 someone, I forget who, made a suggestion that has now become a …
So the above advert for Marmite is currently causing much angst in the UK at present as protesters have been complaining to the ASA that the advert trivialises the work of animal rights campaigners. The job of an advertising campaign is to get coverage and with a product that is already marketed as something that …
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25 years ago I graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic with a degree in Computer Science. That’s me on the left on the steps of the Guildhall looking suitably excited about collecting my degree along with my friends Dirk and Andy. Wind forward 25 years to last Tuesday and I was back on the same steps but …
So Mat has completed his first year at Uni while Alex has just finished his last. Where did the time go? The picture below gives a very good snapshot of student life in halls of residence. The top picture was taken last Monday when I was on a flying visit and shows Mat’s room in …
This is without a doubt the funniest thing Peter Serafinowicz has ever done. Makes me laugh every time I see it and it is a great track.
A few months ago I received an email via Flickr asking me if some of the photos that I had taken while in Bruges, Belgium and posted to the photo sharing site could be used as inspiration for an art project. I have had requests to use various photos that I have taken and posted to …
Looking through my credit card statement this week I noticed that there was a £12 charge on there for late payment. I was certain that I had setup a direct debit and so wasn’t sure why there would have been a charge. Either way I felt that I had kept my account in good order …
Have you discovered the Harlem Shake yet? If you haven’t then consider yourself very lucky that this latest “internet sensation” has passed you by. Basically is is usually one person moving in time to the music before the break and then everyone taking part after that. See the video below for an idea, there are …