How many places have you lived in your life?
I've called 12 places "home"
Hopefully, I'll hit number 13 later this year…
It's an in-laws weekend, with Lorna and I down in Bristol visiting my mother-in-law and brother-in-law, Jesse.
It's also the Bristol Open Doors weekend, giving people the chance to visist Bristol buildings they wouldn't noramlly be able to see in then same way. Here are somw phone pics of a few places we visited. Others will follow when I get home and download pics from the SLR.
What's your middle name? Is there a story or history behind it?
I have two: Matthew John. The first is what my parents were originally going to call me, until they decided Matt Tinworth didn't sound very good (the clashing 't's), and chose Adam instead, after hearing it on The Archers. "John" is a family traditional middle name.
Apologies to anyone easily offended:
What are your plans for the holiday weekend?
Dear Voxters,
The wonderful thing about the internet is that it lack boundaries. It is, in a ward, international.
So, hey, thanks for the US-centric question.
Our holiday weekend in the UK was last weekend and it was just great, thank you.
Regards,
Adam
What is your favorite way to relieve stress?
Quite honestly, I think I unwind most by playing World of Warcraft. DVD-watching is more about spending time with Lorna and I really don't get much time for reading at the moment.
Blogging used to be a hobby, but in snow my job. Hmmm. Photography - yeah, that's a big stress reliever for me.
What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat.
It's set to the Vox homepage, so I can answer the question of the day, and then go on to my neighbourhood.
What an incedibly recursive response.
Tonight feels odd. It's the end of the weekend, but not the Bank Holiday Weekend. I've got tomorrow off, but Lorna doens't. So, this evening is hung somewhere between a Saturday and a Sunday night, with Lorna doing her normal Sunday stuff and me looking forward to an Alterac Valley match or two tomorrow.
Otherwise, it's been a handy weekend. Fixing lights, fixing up the garden, clearing out wardrobes, that sort of thing. We did spend three hours shopping in Lewisham, which was horrific, and the less set about that, the better.
Howeverm we have just watched a really excellent movie, which I'll talk about in a seperate post. I'm such a tease.
What books are on your nightstand?
Bit of a mixed bag at the moment. The first two are books extracted from my massive "to be read" pile. The Granta country life issue is part of a general longing I'm feeling for the rural. The Mary Sue Extrusion is part of a long-defunct sci-fi series that I'm finally getting around to reading so I can flog it on Amazon for £15.
Finally, The Last Witchfinder is a recent purchase, which I'm enjoying immensely. It's part of a genre you might describe as "playful, intellectual, revisionist historical fiction" which is, in part narrated by Newton's Principia Mathamatica. Oh, and the sex scenes are great.
Remember sniglets? Do you have any favorites? Have you ever made up your own word? (Now's as good a time as any.)
OK, this is probably not something to be proud of, but I did coin the word "whorevert" to describe the advertising cards London prostitues leave in phoneboxes a while ago.
My other blog is still the number one result if you Google for "whoreverts". Really.
Show us some rules.
This is a pretty standard set of bomb threat rules, which I suspect date from the IRA era. Today's terrorists don't bother with warnings…
It almost makes you nostalgic. Almost.
Absolutely no thanks at all to AndyB for sending me this and thus costing RBI 10 minutes of my valuable time:
You've been warned.
What's the nerdiest thing about you?
Easy one.
I've written role-playing games and books professionally.
I started through writing for Future Publishing's long dead arcane magazine, which AndyB worked for. That lead to invites to write for White Wolf. I produced sections of about two dozen books over a five year period, including the books shown here.
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
Oh, thank you for this. This is one of those questions that makes everyboy hate me. You see, I liked pretty much all subjects at school, and was good at all of them.
Horrible isn't it?
I can answer the opposite question: my least favourite subject was French. But I never really had a favourite subject.
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
The last wedding we went to was Adam & Clair Rochester's wedding about a month ago. It was held up on the north Norfolk coast, with a tiny ceremony for close friends and family only. We arrived for the reception, and had a really great time. I need to sort though the photos later on today, so I'll update this post with some pics then - which I've now done:
We're back in the Uk. Horrible journey. More later.
So, here I am, sat with the family, having lunch in a French restaurant. It was worth driving through the torrential rain yesterday.
Tunnel time!
What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?
Question submitted by mainmor.
It was Bambi.
And yes, I remember crying when his Mum was killed.
I also vividly remember seeing Star Wars when I was 6. My little brother fell asleep during the film, only waking up when the Death Star was blown up.
Mum, on the other hand, was slightly bored, and never really understood my obsession with buying every single Star Wars figure I could, right through until my mid-teens.
Ah, happy days.
I should be in the house in the picture above tonight, but thanks to having our flights cancelled from under us, I'm not.
In 24 hours, I should be there. I've got a ride in the chunnel and a long drive ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to the break. Not sure how much internet access I'll have, so I'll see you all soon…
I've not had a lot of luck with haircuts of late. The place I'd been going for half a decade closed down earlier the year, the place I tried in Lewisham gave me a military scalp and the first place I tried in Soho was keener on giving me champagne than a decent cut.
Then, finally, I found somewhere decent, a greek chap in a side street. Hurrah!
And then I was seconded to Sutton. Boo!
After two months without a cut, I crumbled and went for a trim in Sutton. It was the cheapest haircut I'd had in about three years and I'm rather pleased with it.
What do you think?
At 3.30pm today, I am due to be taking off for Poitiers.
This will not be happening.
The flight was cancelled, thanks to the current situation, and I've spent much of the evening sorting out an alternative.
I'll now be driving Lorna and Mum onto a train at 11am on Sunday, and we'll head to France through the channel tunnel.
Hurrah!
So, I'm due to fly to France on Saturday.
Ah ha. Ha ha. Ha.
Ha.
I wonder how much the ferries cost.
For those in need of a laugh:
How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics!
