'Diary'

Whistler Blackcomb, Week 2 - Monday report by Sarah

Posted on March 13, 2007 ~ Filed Under Diary

Straight up to the very top of Blackcomb mountain, climbing 1 vertical mile on 3 chair lifts with four of our housemates. Jemima wearing flourescent pink trousers again, to the amusement of the boys.
Head off in deep powder and zero visibility, the boys go off piste and we try to stay on, but […]

Whistler - week 1 of 4 (yes, 4!)

Posted on March 10, 2007 ~ Filed Under Diary

So, we’re in Whistler, Canada, for four weeks in March. Hard to believe, and incredibly cool. We’re just getting to the end of week 1, and pictures are appearing on Flickr from us now. We are just about over our jet lag, and getting into things. I was surprised by how much I didn’t enjoy […]

Three things to make me smile

Posted on February 20, 2007 ~ Filed Under Diary

I’m trying something this week - I’m looking out for at least three things a day to make me smile. So far, I’ve achieved it on the way into work.
Yesterday:

There was a woman on the tube wearing a fantastic stripy hat. It had red and purple stripes, with a sort of pink / peach […]

Pink and green are, perhaps, not too cool?

Posted on January 21, 2007 ~ Filed Under Diary

So, I found a snowboarding sale yesterday, and, um, went mad. This is significantly brighter than my blue boarding trousers and coat and I think I may have swayed a little too far in the other direction. What you can’t see is how the trousers and jacket attach to each other to create a powder-proof […]

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), […]

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 […]

Surfing in France, September 2006

Posted on September 21, 2006 ~ Filed Under Diary

Sarah and I got back last night from a couple of weeks in France with our surfboards. We had a great time, of course. We booked very last minute, driving a Streetcar down to Newhaven, taking a ferry over to Dieppe overnight, and driving down for a few days in Ollone Sur Mer. We stayed […]

Page memory

Posted on August 21, 2006 ~ Filed Under Diary

I’ve noticed something clever that my brain seems to do. When I return to a book I’ve been reading, and open the book at the page I’ve marked, 90% of the time my eyes go right to the point I left off. I made no conscious effort to remember the paragraph I finished at, but […]

The joy of owning a PVR

Posted on August 17, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture, Diary

I was chatting to Céline the other day when she told me that her life had just been changed by a piece of technology. There followed a good 15 minutes of enthusiastic information about the joy of owning a hard disc television recorder, or PVR. I didn’t believe it: I mean, what could be so […]

« go back — keep looking »