Sep
30
Speaking Of The Rings
September 30, 2006 | Comments Off
(As I was the other day:)
They’re now in our possession. Two platinum, court shape, mirror finish wedding rings. Fairly traditional in style, though the platinum makes them a bit less so I suppose. I wasn’t expecting them to be finished until some time this coming week, so I’m glad that I can […]
Sep
28
It’s Large. It’s Blue. And It’s Back!
September 28, 2006 | 4 Comments
The Large Blue Butterfly became extinct in Britain in 1979, but thanks to a diligent effort by the charity Butterfly Conservation, it’s been reintroduced to five locations and from those has already started spreading to others. This is remarkable enough simply as an effort by the dedicated conservationists. But it’s more remarkable still when you […]
Sep
26
Religious Issues
September 26, 2006 | Comments Off
My general antagonism towards most if not all things religious has been mentioned here before, but every now and then I do find myself having to concede that if it weren’t for religion, the world would be a far less entertaining place. If it’s not the Pope (infallible unless I’m much mistaken) screwing up […]
Sep
25
All In the Terminology
September 25, 2006 | Comments Off
Something that’s been niggling away in the back of my mind suddenly crystalised into a simple realisation when I was reading My Beloved’s latest comment on his own blog. I’ve been trying to work out what it is in everyday conversations that’s felt off, and now i know.
It’s that at some point, without consciously […]
Sep
23
Hero Or Zero
September 23, 2006 | Comments Off
In our household we’re currently much enjoying every one of those Pepsi Max ads that they’re running on billboards all over the city at the moment - and I do mean all over; the things are everywhere. In case you haven’t seen them, they’re anti-Coke Zero messages, showing a scale from Zero to Max with […]
Sep
22
I *Heart* Virgin
September 22, 2006 | Comments Off
Or maybe it’s Richard Branson I *heart*. Or maybe it’s both.
I fly Virgin Atlantic a good few times a year, and actually, I do like to do so. Far more than with British Airways, their chief competitor on the Virgin routes I fly, whose service is a shoddy and rather depressing shadow […]
Sep
21
Catered
September 21, 2006 | Comments Off
Well, not quite. But we do have final menu choices to select from, and we’ve settled on things like arrival drinks. We’ve discussed decorations, and Paul the DJ has checked out the music facilities. plus we’ve given him some rather contradictory advice about what we’d like to play. And we were fitted for, well let’s […]
Sep
20
The Uncertainty Principle
September 20, 2006 | Comments Off
At one point I was going to be in another country for the day today. If I had been, then the meeting we had scheduled for this evening with the person who’s working on our outfits for the wedding party would have been a David only affair, which would be annoying, as it was a […]
Sep
19
The Downside Of Commuting By Car…
September 19, 2006 | Comments Off
…. is that you don’t get to read over people’s shoulders.
And sometimes that can be quite er, distracting.
Sep
18
I’ve never, ever, been able to get as enthused about the BBC series Spooks (or MI5 if you’re in the USA) as some people, and it turns out David has the same problem. But in an effort to understand what various people we know do see in it, we watched (the second part of) the […]