Archive for November, 2006

30 pictures in 30 days

Posted on November 30, 2006 ~ Filed Under Diary

While Octavia was writing her novel in November, I decided to take up a challenge of my own – 30 pictures in 30 days. I’ve been trying to learn to draw for a few months now, and I’m still enjoying it. The results are very hit and miss, but it’s all part of the learning [...]

My sister the novelist

Posted on November 30, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture, Diary, Web ideas

My sister Octavia has been taking part in this year’s NaNoWriMo, the challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in a month, and she’s done it! She is a NaNoWriMo winner! Her novel came in at 50,250 words (but, for some reason the NaNoWriMo word count squeaked her in with a word count of 50,080), [...]

Charity Christmas gifts – perfect for a society that denies itself nothing

Posted on November 18, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture

I was thinking today about the increase in the last few years of charity gifts at Christmas. You know the thing: a goat for a family in Ethiopia; a pile of bricks for a house somewhere else… You pay the charity and the recipient you know gets a card and a warm, fuzzy glow. I [...]

Humphrys in Search of God

Posted on November 16, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture

A quick heads up for a fantastic series of programmes running on Radio 4 at the moment, called Humphrys in Search of God. It’s a series of interviews with John Humphrys talking to a variety of religious leaders. The first one was with the Archbishop of Canterbury and was good, but not incredibly inspiring (probably [...]

Jemima Kingsley, 9th Kup

Posted on November 16, 2006 ~ Filed Under Diary

On Sunday, Sarah and I had our first tae kwon do grading. Strictly speaking it wasn’t Sarah’s first grading at all, since she did lots of tae kwon do when she was a kid, but it was my absolute first experience of such a thing. It was fantastic!
I’ve been going to tae kwon do lessons [...]