25 Years Ago...
Just sticking this up here so I can find it again. I love the recreating of the 1980s in this ad - it takes me straight back to my teenage years...
Today on the internets...
Today I have been:
- Finally figuring out what body con means. Not knowing had been bothering me for months.
- Being amused by this:
- Hearing the sound of drums
- Exploring the psychology of the profile pic
QotD: License to Drive
Do you consider yourself a good driver? How many tickets have you received? What were they for?
I've received a grant total of two tickets in my life - both for going down bus lanes by accident. That's not bad.
Good driver? I'm a fine driver. I've been in a couple of actual car crashes, but I can say with my hand on my heart neither of them were my fault. I have driven a lot over the last few years, and my ratio of miles to incidents is pretty damn good.
London Snow Mini-Retrospective
The snow in London passed almost without acknowledgement here. Time to change that a little.
My back garden when the snow was at its worst:
Quaggy Gardens:
And the delightful Lewisham Station:
And here's how it looked around where Rev Stan and I work:
Back Down to Mile End
Youch. Here's a trip down memory lane, courtesy of Bookmole. This is a video of photographs of Mile End set to Pulp's Mile End.
I lived in Mile End, not far from the station, in 1993 - 1994. This really brings back some memories - very few of them good.
Deforestation
Because I'm a tree-hugging hippy at heart:
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8128504&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1
Just beautiful - and inspiring - and worrying.
[via Kottke]
QotD: The Name Game
Were you named after anyone? If not, how did you get your name?
I was, in a way. My parents were struggling to find a name for me, until my Dad was driving home one evening, with the radio on, and The Archers came on. There was a young child on the show then, called Adam. Dad thought "ah-ha" - and that's how I got my name.
The character is still in the show, believe it or not.
Adam, scandalous back then as an illegitimate son, is now fighting the progressive battle as the first gay character to get married to his boyfriend in the show. Adam, a farmer, and Ian, a chef, have been happily married for years…
No Entry (Snow)
Tags of Christmas Past
We had something of an eco-friendly Christmas this year. While we were clearing out Mum's house back in 2008, we found enough unused Christmas cards to last for year and enough paper and tags to last, well, two years, as it turned out.
And some of the designs were decades old. I liked the designs of these tags so much, I've scanned them to preserve them for posterity:
Snowy Sutton
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Night, Snow and QH
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Night, Snow and QH
Snowy Sutton
Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham
Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?
Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham
Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?
When a Canon Boy Meets a Nikon Girl
Possibly not safe for work, depending on your office environment…
[via the EOS Magazine newsletter]
On Objects and Memories
An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late parents' house:
Sometimes it's hard to make that separation.The hardest part of decluttering is remembering that the objects are simply representations of the memories, not the memories themselves
On Objects and Memories
An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late parents' house:
The hardest part of decluttering is remembering that the objects are simply representations of the memories, not the memories themselvesSometimes it's hard to make that separation.
First 11th Doctor Trailer
First 11th Doctor Trailer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf
The first trailer for series five of the new Doctor Who, starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. Looks very promising.
Fair Warning
My brother and his wife were kind enough to but me a new standard zoom for Christmas, a lens I've been putting through its paces over the last few days. Expect quite a few photographs on here over the coming days...
Fair Warning
My brother and his wife were kind enough to but me a new standard zoom for Christmas, a lens I've been putting through its paces over the last few days. Expect quite a few photographs on here over the coming days…
My Christmas Creation
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Christmas in the Country
Fear of Flying course from Virgin. Admittedly, people trying to blow up aircraft isn't helping...