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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Spooked

September 18, 2006 | 1 Comment

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 […]

keep looking »
  • Blogdates

    September 2006
    M T W T F S S
    « Aug   Oct »
     123
    45678910
    11121314151617
    18192021222324
    252627282930  
  • Recent Comments

    • Gert: I think I’m with Charles on that one, except that I don’t think it’s solely American. It...
    • Gert: It dawned on me only recently that the ‘turning down’ the room is a bit of genius. the customer is...
    • Andy Mulhearn: One of my favourites is “Rooms from £39.95″ which turn out to be either unavailable on...
    • mike: ROTFLMAO!! That’s awesome, a perfect response from you which I am sure helped her own internal screenplay...
    • Dave: now that is bloody funny… I’ve done the sitting at a bar thing in various cities around the world...