Vox Hunt: Today's Beverage
Show us what you're drinking.
Follow the bean.
Rural Weddings
Vox Hunt: This One's For The Kids
Books: Show us a great children's book.
Poop! Poop!
You can take your schoolboy wizards and your furry-toed hobbits. Ratty, Badger, Mole and, of course, Toad are the finest creatures on the planet.
You can take your schoolboy wizards and your furry-toed hobbits. Ratty, Badger, Mole and, of course, Toad are the finest creatures on the planet.
Chocolate Rain: annoying earworm
I heard about this from a podcast, couldn't figure out why everyone was raving about it.
And then, two days later, I found myself singing it.
Now you, too, can have this exciting experience!
QotD: First Crush
How old were you when you had your very first boyfriend/girlfriend? Do you still know them now?
Submitted by KIM.
I was a late starter. I sorta dated a girl called Jo when I was 17, but I didn't really start dating properly until Jennifer when I was 19.
And I'm not in contact with any of my ex-girlfriends at all. Not a great believer in "can't we just stay friends?"
No.
My Sad, Lamentable Taste in Music
Oh, look. iTunes has widgets:
Vox Hunt: And All The Colors
Show us a rainbow.
Submitted by Amy - Sister Brown Hair Surprise.
Dr Who: Here Comes Season 4
Ah, we have more news about season 4 of New Who.
There's some good casting in there, but the hardcore aren't going to care, because they're still in shock that the Doctor will have a 30-something companion, rather than the normal young tottie. A 30-something who screamed and screeched her way through her first episode.
Yeah, and…?
Dr Who fans seem to exist in a parallel reality where TV production crews are utterly blind to the most obvious factors. Writers who are incapable of developing characters and giving them more depth when the get a larger role. Where comedy performers are incapable of stepping up to dramatic roles. Theirs is a world where one-note characters from Cheers like Frasier are incapable of being the lead in their own series. When comedy actors from Robin Williams to Ronnie Barker haven't moved to more serious roles to great acclaim.
Doctor Who
fans are special, you see. Years of watching time-travelling adventures has given them special powers to see into the future, and know what a series that has only just started filming will be like.The rest of us will just have to wait and find out. And, to compensate us for our lack of special powers, we'll get to enjoy it more.
Vintage QotD: Here Comes The Bride
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
John & Anita's wedding a few months back. And no, I had no role at all which was blissful. After being the wedding photographer at a couple of hitchings, it was nice just to take it easy.
Dad'n'Me
A silly pic of Dad and I taken by Mum back in 2001.
And us in a men of destiny pose:
Photo Friday: Wet
Seated Paddling, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
Two senior folks enjoying the feel of water on their feet in Cornwall.
Submitted to Photo Friday: Wet.
Burj Dubai - as tall as it gets?
Part of the reason behind starting this (shamefully neglected) blog was to write about stuff I no longer feel comfortable babbling about on One Man & His Blog. Architecture is one of those topics.
I may no longer be a property journalist, but property-related e-mails still drop into my in-box with startling regularity. This one caught my attention, both for the images and the claim that it will be the tallest building in the world. Yes, Burj Dubai will rise to 512.1 metres (1,680 feet) and 141 storeys, beating Taipei 101 in Taiwan. The building is under construction right now by Emaar Properties PJSC, to be completed next year.
My Great-Grandma
Another one from the family archives, shot in October 1983:
Saturday Afternoon in Multicultural Lewisham
The Friday Afternoon Feeling
Apparently, British firms are losing £50m, because people are taking Friday afternoons off, on the sly.
You'll never catch that happening here, oh, no:
Two Great 70s Tastes - That Taste Better Together!
Keith Chegwin and The Wurzels!
Drivin' Along in my (cardboard) Automobile
Christopher Walken cooks Chicken with Pears
The mind boggles.
Still, the man's a good cook.
QotD: My Strongest Summer Memory
What will you remember most about this summer?
August has only just begun! There's at least a month left for making cool summer memories!
Really. Vox is becoming terribly premature...
The Charity Shop Racks
The staple of any charity shop: romance novels and tatty fantasy series.
Why do these two classes of books turn up in these shops with such frequency?
I suppose it's something to do with their target audience being voracious readers, who don't put any value in the books themselves once they're done with them.
Pulp clearly lives...
Why do these two classes of books turn up in these shops with such frequency?
I suppose it's something to do with their target audience being voracious readers, who don't put any value in the books themselves once they're done with them.
Pulp clearly lives...
Flower
One of a group of photos I shot, while fruitlessly searching for a butterfly, as instructed by a recent Vox Hunt:
QotD: School Sports
What were the sports or games you played in high school or college?
Submitted by Stephen.
I was a serious fencer at school. The picture above isn't of me - it was taken by me sometime in the late 80s, when I was spending most of my weekends at various fencing competitions or team trainings for the Scottish Youth Squad, where I fought in the Epee team...
Here's another pic, showing what must have been one of the early uses of the electric hit registering system for sabre. The metallic piste on the floor was an integral part of the circuit:
Here's another pic, showing what must have been one of the early uses of the electric hit registering system for sabre. The metallic piste on the floor was an integral part of the circuit:
QotD: Stress Case
People do many different things to cope with stress, loss, and "bumps in the road". How do you handle stress and hard times?
Submitted by RedlyGal.
Cinema Mismanagement
So, on Friday night, Lorna and I went to the cinema. Boy, that was a mistake.
The cinema, the Odeon Greenwich, had decided to go back to back for the opening of Transformers either to "meet customer demand" or "make more money". Well, they may have succeeded in the latter, but they failed badly in the former. By the time we arrived at the cinema to collect our pre-booked 9.30pm showing tickets, the queue to get up to the screens was looped right around the circular building. Staff were surly and evasive when asked what was going on, and it took us three separate attempts to discover the back-to-back thing wasn't working very well for them, and all the screenings had fallen behind.
We finally got into the cinema well after 10pm, to find dirty seats and an unpleasantly aromatic cinema. And when the film started, 10% of it was on the side wall, not the screen itself. Several members of the audience had to go and complain before this was sorted out.
Oh, and when we emerged, the women's loo had run out of toilet paper.
Congratulations Odeon. We, after half a decade of using your cinema regularly, will never be darkening your doors again. If that's how you treat paying customers, I won't be a customer of yours any more.
The Old Manor
My old offices on Wardour Street, all refurbished and lovely.
