I have bought some new pillows, and have had strange dreams-cum-nightmares. My significant other tells me this is entirely to be expected. Common knowledge. At least in her country.
All of a sudden, shopping for home furnishings has become something to dread. It’s certainly made me a little reluctant to look at getting a new sofa now….
Categories: In My Life · Thought For The Day
Very strange being on the tube yesterday, after all this. Even when the tube is packed, there’s normally a very careful sense of space around each person; a preserved isolation. People don’t make a lot of eye contact on the tube and a lot of the time they don’t chat to each other on the tube; the noise from the carriages drowns out the conversations. It’s a very different experience from being a bus; there, you catch snippets of a life from an overheard mobile phone conversation, a chat between people sitting next to each other. You can see lives at each stop; people coming in and out of shops, running to get to the bus stop on time…
The tube, on the other hand, is strangely suspended from all that. Little dark capsule of relief from all the complications of life up above. Little dark capsule of relief from a city full of other people. On the tube, you’re normally alone with your own thoughts.
But yesterday was very different. Lots of eye contact. You knew – or thought you had a very good idea – what everyone was thinking of, if not what they made of it. I don’t think anyone knows what to make of it.
Categories: In My Life · London
It’s the 1st, which means my bandwidth quota gets re-set. Last month I was nearly 40% over, and all because I had lots of people looking at my photos. Now, I like people looking at the photos, but not when I get hundreds of e-mails from BlogHarbor about bandwidth. So I’m moving photo hosting to the wonderful Flickr.
Have also added an AudioScrobbler link, so you can see exactly what I’m listening to in quite wonderfully pointless detail. So now you can… err… ‘scrobble’ me. (Why are internet verbs so horrible? Google isn’t too bad, although it’s already a noun, but ‘blog’? ‘wiki’? Great services but linguistic car-crashes…)
And finally, a long over due hello to someone who links to me – Dolly Mixture. I knew her back at uni, and it’s always nice to see what people are up to. Plus, she’s over in the Far East (Kuala Lumpur), so maybe you can expect front line dispatches in the war on Hello Kitty.
Categories: In My Life · Web
I am now safely back in England, and my body clock is following a little more slowly behind me. Lots to write about – whilst I do like the web, the white screen isn’t quite as nice as this, picture below. It’s a shot of rolls of Washi, traditional, hand-made Japanese paper, in a shop in Kamakura. Will update soon, sleep/work/washing/eating/wondering first…
Categories: In My Life · Japanorama
Having problems getting hold of a camera at the moment (deceitful internet sites claiming to have stock and then turning out to be mistaken…) So I’ve been sorting through some slightly older photos. I took this when I went to Prague in the spring. It is exactly what the title suggests. There are some more, very special Prague photos to come, too, later this week…
Categories: In My Life
As it was a bank holiday last weekend, I drove out to Oxford. As well as going punting (well, I was sort of a tourist), I went out to see the white horse at Uffington. It’s made from chalk, and spans the side of a hill, and was originally constructed “2 or 3″ thousand years ago. (More info here.) Excellent views over the Berkshire downs. The weather was great, and I got some nice pics of very ‘English’ countryside. “Chocolate box England” as my Mum says….
Categories: In My Life
RRRR. Barclays just charged me a £30 penalty, and I’ve incurred a £50 fine for not paying my congestion charge (I thought you could pay it up to 24 hours afterwards, but it’s only till midnight). And it’s raining. And I’m ill. Woe is me, woe is me, etc., fade music, curtain.
Categories: In My Life
Another Church motto sign, like the one I posted yesterday. This is a photo I actually took myself. It’s from Toronto, when I was there for a couple of days, and (as you can see) it was snapped just outside the Hyatt hotel. It’s a good quote – with or without the religious connotations.
Categories: In My Life
…Literally. Spent a long weekend in Blackpool, and on Friday, I went to the Pleasure Beachwhich is a massive theme park with a lot of rollercoasters crammed in to a small space. It’s not quite as high concept as a lot of other theme parks (like Alton Towers), but, like Blackpool itself, manages to
create a surreal-yet-shabby atmosphere that I’ve never found anywhere else. It’s like an alternate universe that’s only slightly changed – you know it’s different, but you’re not quite sure how…
Categories: In My Life
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It’s Monday, and it’s raining. The sun is gone, although at least it’s not as debilitatingly hot now. In honour of the start of the week, a few quick photos from my workplace window, taken over the last few months.
Categories: In My Life · London · Photography
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