The life and times of a software and web developer
I started watching an unexpectedly wonderful movie last night. Everybody else had gone to bed fairly early, and I found myself sitting in the lounge on my own, flicking through movies on the TV. It’s called “The Brand New Testament”. I’m not entirely sure how to describe it. Imagine there is a god, and he’s … Continue reading The Brand New Testament
I seem to have fallen into a pattern of posting every other day at the moment. This is not intentional. Hell – posting every day was never really intentional – but I suppose it became a “thing” after a while. During the last year I probably went more than a month at various points without … Continue reading Every Other Day
It’s funny how the universe works sometimes. After discovering our eldest daughter in floods of tears last night, I suggested a late night movie on the sofa armed with endless cups of tea might help a little. A distraction. I’m good at distractions. There was only one problem – what movie to watch? Quite by … Continue reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I’m catching the early train to London tomorrow morning with Miss 18 – we are visiting HyperJapan – an expo of everything to do with Japanese culture – food, art, movies, music, clothes, manga, anime, cosplay, and so on. It’s all my fault apparently – for getting her started on Studio Ghibli movies, and manga … Continue reading HyperJapan
I’m not entirely sure where to start. I haven’t really sat down for longer than ten minutes all day. I’ve cleared all the washing, hoovered downstairs, cleaned the kitchen (more than once), made lunch for everybody, re-wired the phone and internet connection (which involved walking into town again to buy a wire), gone grocery shopping … Continue reading Brain Dump
When I leave work on an evening, I call home. Invariably Miss 13 picks the phone up – she has been trained by my other half as an evil receptionist – this began when she was very young, and would talk to cold-callers for quite some time before they realised there was no hope of … Continue reading An Unexpected Movie Night
Just a few words to tell those of you that follow me that everything is fine, there is nothing wrong, and the gaps in my almost-daily posts are just down to life happening. I flew home from Germany yesterday, then went to the local radio station quiz night, spent much of today at the local … Continue reading A Very Short Post
This evening finds me filling an Amazon tablet with books, movies, and music ahead of a week spent largely offline. A week away from the internet. A week filled with cheap wine, the beach, sunburn, swimming pools, playing in the surf with the children, Dad dancing in the hotel disco, and otherwise doing as little … Continue reading Books, Movies, and Music
Our eldest daughter has been in the wars – and that’s something of an understatement. For the last two weeks she has been fighting tonisllitis, and losing. She went through one course of antibiotics and appeared to be on the mend – but then the virus returned, and she hasn’t eaten all this week. Continue reading Keep Taking the Tablets
I started watching “Orange Is The New Black” last night. Yep – that’s right – I just started with the hugely successful TV show that’s headed towards it’s sixth season – and here I am, starting with season 1. I’m SO good at keeping up with all the cool kids. Continue reading Is This The World We Created ?
