Archive for September, 2005

Christmas in september

Posted on September 26, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

It’s september and marks and spencer are selling christmas goods already.

Fashion world in drug use shocker

Posted on September 22, 2005 ~ Filed Under Culture

Céline says something I’ve been thinking about in her comment about Kate Moss. What is the big shock horror about people in the fashion world taking drugs? The Evening Standard actually did an exposé of the drug problem in London Fashion week yesterday. Um, what? Has no one heard of ‘heroin chic’? Is the Evening […]

A little less conversation, a little more action

Posted on September 20, 2005 ~ Filed Under Culture, Diary

Instead of blogging over the past few months, I’ve been:

Reading Surf Science (10/10), The Woman Who Found Grace (9/10), My Trade (9/10), Light on Snow (8/10), currently Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (jury’s out)
Surfing in Devon and for two weeks in France
Getting hooked on House
Letting Sodoku suck the life force from my being
Waving Sarah off […]

Hair again.

Posted on September 9, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

Octavia doesn’t like her new haircut again.

Oh, I’m so excited

Posted on September 9, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

The Guardian relaunches in its new Berliner format on Monday. You can read about it and preview the design online, and they’re giving away a sample in tomorrow’s paper, but I can hardly wait until Monday. Dweeb? Oh yeah!

West Wing Season 6

Posted on September 6, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

How loopy is this? Season 6 of the West Wing is coming out on DVD at the end of the month with no sign of it being shown on TV in the UK. I despaired of Channel 4 for showing Season 5 after a long delay and bought that on DVD before it aired as […]

Buy our wave bench!

Posted on September 4, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

Bargains, bargains, bargains. We’re out of space in our sitting room, so Sarah’s trying to sell the wave bench she made for her birthday party in November. It looks fabby and it’s a real shame we’ve got to part with it.
We’re keeping the surfboard tables, though, which I’m really pleased about as I think […]