Archive for January, 2005

Le Hussard sur le Toit

Friday, January 7th, 2005

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We watched Le Hussard sur le Toit this evening. With subtitles, although I was quite pleased about how much of it I could follow in French.
It was a little disappointing, really. It has a good twist at the end, […]

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

I’m sitting here trying to write, but really it’s just not going to happen, so I’ve admitted defeat. When I’ve finished typing this I’m going to bed. I think I must have turned soft over Christmas. This first day back at work has wiped me out.
I read the first couple of pages of A Short […]

Who ate all the pies?

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

So who is eating the food from the freezer in the garage? Two boxes of pasta things, neatly packaged back up again, have been slipped back into the drawers after the contents have been taken. There’s only a very limited number of people who have access to that garage. I didn’t eat them, because one […]

Maldon Mud Race 2005

Sunday, January 2nd, 2005

A promising start: down the banks and into the river.

Up the opposite bank and through the mud flats

I’m sure it seemed a good idea at the time

Back across the river, up the slippery bank and across the finish line
Maldon is three things. First, it’s where they print MacUser, so of course I have cause to […]

Hah-pee noo yeyhr

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

We live next door to a pub - more or less. So of course we walked 40 minutes into and then out of town for new year.
It was ticket-only night at the pub, so we didn’t get there until 11 when it was already full and VERY LOUD. I did all the pre-requisite texting half […]