You may have noticed that I’m a bit obsessed by trees and leaves. Particularly at this time of year when, if you’re lucky, the sun beats down out of an icy blue sky and the colours of the leaves leap out. The rich reds, the stinging yellows, I love the rainbow of foliage this time [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations against the war in Iraq in cities across the US.
Rallies took place in a dozen cities, with the biggest crowds gathering in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
They were timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of a vote by the US Senate to authorise [...]
A new doodle.
Unravelled
Leavesing
Two doodles I did today.
Guess what I bought today:
Yep! A STYLOPHONE!
It may not mean much to you but it’s a slice of my childhood. I wanted one for ages and, after much pestering, I got one when I was nine or maybe ten. I played and played that little box. I composed maudlin elegies and triumphal marches which, had [...]
Click above to see some pics from when I was was in Allestree the other day. It was a gorgeously sunny, cold, autumn day. The sky was beautiful, blue and high and seemed to wrap around each leaf as well as being miles away.
Why are cold, sunny days so surreally wonderful?
Click the pic to see some snaps from last night’s festivities!
I was fed-up with my iPod.
It had been crashing a lot. And it refused to sync tunes to iTunes. Every now and then, it’d make clicky noises, those cockroach-type noises that, for me, signal the HD being on the way out.
So…
I thought ‘what the fuck’ and decided to hack it. After all, how [...]
Amidst all the fake-lefty caterwauling and whining about the Westfield, the complainers seem to have missed one fact.
We now have a Thorntons Cafe!
Yes, THORNTONS! Yet another evil multinational megacorp, cackling and planning world choccy domination from… er… Alfreton. Derbyshire.
Can you not see how their perfidy is growing, homogenising the choc world?? Why, in [...]
And click the little mosaic above to see some of the peeps I bumped into.