Just finished On The Edge by Richard Hammond of Top Gear fame. Excellent reading if you are familiar with what happened in his rocket car crash. Half of the book is written by his missus Mindy and she writes really well – very touching in her honesty. blm
Fancy a holiday in France?
Friends of ours have bought and are doing up an amazing Villa in the spiritual Carcassonne area of France. Simply register with them online to be in with a chance of winning 3 nights for two people and you could be the first ever guests at La Villa de Mazamet…
West End gridlock approaches
The fun is all due to start in the 2nd week of February and go on for 19(!) weeks. I’m talking about the Tram works going on in Edinburgh of course – well I don’t even think its the actual tram lines getting laid at this stage – just moving…
Discworld
It was back in my Uni days that I borrowed a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel off Greg. Probably more than a decade later I saw Waterstones doing a 3 for 2 offer and proceeded to buy 24 of them – from The Colour of Magic through to The Fifth Elephant.…
A Night at the Opera
After watching a documentary about the 1975 Queen album ‘A Night at the Opera’ last night on BBC3 or 4 (can’t remember which) I am listening to it today. Note to self – make sure not to sing along with the tracks here in the office… blm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Seems like ages since I was last on here with anything to say – that’s holidays for you! Crimbo was family affair with it being Mum’s turn for the hosting duties this year. Lorna, Steven and baby Ryan were all in attendance and on top form. New Year we headed…
w00t
w00t it’s Crimbo and I’m off for a fortnight. Lots of hanging about in the house watching cr@p TV and eating too much. Hoping to do as little as possible but we’ll see how that turns out.
New Motorcycle
Haha, got your attention. Not quite as fast as my current real one, but a lot more easy to build (just a spanner and an Allen Key required). Many thanks to Secret Santa in the office. What a great gift, built it in my lunch hour of course…
3rd Christmas Tree
Mum got a real tree this year after 20+ years of the same artificial tree! Picked it up and helped decorate it on Saturday making it the 3rd tree I’ve put up and decorated this year! Not looking forward to having to take 3 down…
And here's the office tree
Our spare fake tree, with bauble and lights from home. The wee cardboard box below it is a nativity scene made up of stress balls and so on…