It’s been a productive few days, but it feels like I haven’t actually got anywhere.
I’ve pretty much finished my desk: a few finishing touches and it’ll be done. I have started to move things about in my room but I haven’t finished. I’ve done quite a few other jobs too as I went and left [...]
Category Archives: random
Going Nowhere
Historical in Context
You might, if you read my blog regularly, have been wondering what I have been doing recently. I haven’t posted for a while, so as you might guess, that answer to your question is "not much".
I haven’t been doing nothing, however. My desk is slowly taking shape, after many trials with the electric jigsaw (the [...]
Deep Lincoln
I spent last week in Boston (Lincolnshire, of course) with my grandparents. It was more pleasant than I had expected, though it was indeed rather warm. There were good photo opportunities in the town centre and in the boat cruise up the River Witham. We climbed The Stump, the 14th highest tower in Britain, apparently.
On [...]
Gasping
There was a minor frustration spreading around Cramlington this morning as the residents awoke to find their taps dry. About this time last night the water had stopped. Apparently, a pipe had burst under a main road and obliterated the supply to about half of Cramlington. This information was privy solely to those that checked [...]
More To The Point
The buzz question in Britain at the moment is "how do we combat knife-crime?". Looking around you find there are a lot of answers. Some suggest tackling poverty as an indirect solution; some suggest having police stop-and-search every questionable face on the street; I have even seen suggested that knives should have their pointed tips [...]
Come To London
People often ask me why I dislike London so much. It’s the pretentiousness and arrogance of the place.
Take this morning. I received an email from the TDA trying to persuade me to get into teaching. It has announced its new pay rises for newly qualified teachers. From £20,627 to £20,155 marks a whopping 2.45% pay [...]
Privileges for the Privileged
I read this morning about Lord Coe’s glowing view of the legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games. He says:
I don’t see a generation out there who are lost or are hoodies, I don’t see the world like that, when I go around that’s not what I see.
I’ve taken a rather pessimistic view of sport in [...]
Chop Chop
I had my hair cut today. It wasn’t something I planned, so I am a little in shock now. This morning I had what appeared to be black hair: the stubborn locks that remained since dying it in December covering what lied beneath. It was also rather long, gathering at the base of my neck [...]
All Was Well
Even before I had finished my exams I had started to pick up the last two Harry Potter books again. I had started reading The Half Blood Prince not too long after it had first been released, but I stopped reading it. I forget why. But for a long time I had that and The [...]
In A World Of My Own
I think I have a small problem. Over the past couple of days I’ve started to realise that playing World Of Warcraft is starting to get to me.
On Wednesday evening, I was playing in a "Heroic Dungeon" called The Mechanar, and in short the group kept dying. We decided to call it and I turned [...]