Category: Tim

Jax: “Small, I can’t look up the shop online, not all shops are online.” Just wonder when the first parent had to explain that.

Took the Smalls to meet up with Jax and batch of schoolfriends at the cinema yesterday. Whilst hanging around waiting, I added to my Geograph collection, had an overpriced Starbucks coffee and browsed around Borders shop. I love maps, new, old, doesn’t matter, they fascinate me. I hadn’t really spent any time looking at Cassini…

Well there was more wind than flood, but “After The Wind” didn’t seem like such a good title. Still the weekend was fun, even if the camping left something to be desired. I must admit, I am disappointed that our tent (Vango Venture 500), allegedly (I wasn’t there to see it) failed to stand up…

But the best bit is the (fictitious?) organisation who have supposedly published the poster. “Acadamy Of Linguistic Awarness”. Oh dear.

Her first love. Harry was Big’s first baby doll, she chose him herself from the shop, when she was barely over a year old. Now, heartless, fickle hussy that she is, poor Harry sobs silently to himself, neglected, forgotten, on a shelf at our old house.  

Oliver Stone’s film W. is currently in post-production. Should be fun: George Bush Laura Bush Condoleeza Rice General Colin Powell Saddam Hussein Tony Blair (and presumably that must be Cherie? …. no, that is Jessica Alba, Cherie is the Invisible Woman) W (imdb)

…. Indeed, if Labour’s present financial straits do lead it (as some predict) to seek a limited liability corporate structure, there would be a case for the cash-rich (but in inner-city patches of Britain, votes-poor) Conservative Party to stage a hostile bid – or to buy Labour from the Administrator, who would presumably be obliged…

Many people don’t realise that there are many phone providers offering cheaper calls to standard telephone numbers (those beginning with 01 or 02), which don’t apply to 0844, 0845, 0870 or 0871 telephone numbers. … you can reduce your call cost on standard telephone numbers to as little as 3p fixed cost (regardless of duration),…

Made me laugh. Each week two of the advertising industry’s finest agencies are pitted against each other and challenged with selling the unsellable. … Which anti-tourism campaign ad do you think will work better? The Pitch

Today, Big went off with a little friend to Manor Heath Park to do the usual running round in circles, with a bit of making stuff thrown in. So, I took Small to Castle Hill. If you have been to Huddersfield, you have almost certainly seen it. There is a tower on top, erected for…