…Papersurfer Junior loves Halloween so tonight as a special treat after school we will carve pumkins, roast pumpkin seeds and then dress up in gruesome costumes and go scare the living shite out of the neighbours. Then (if he’s been a good little boy) he can stay up late and watch a movie or two. [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
New blog anybody…?
October 29, 2008 – 5:10 pm
…after several days slaving over a hot graphics tablet the Emporium makeover is nearly complete. I’ve decided to go old school and use the nearest thing to a pencil that works with a computer – hope you like the results. There are also a few new WordPress-type coding hints which I will gradually build up [...]
Weather report – Portugal…
October 22, 2008 – 4:12 pm
…blustery doesn’t quite cut it when trying to describe the last 24 hours on the west coast of Portugal. To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised to see a cow fly past the window. Unfortunately this has turned the sea into a seething mass of white angriness reducing my wavecount for the week to single [...]
Gorillapod…
October 17, 2008 – 1:10 pm
…I received a loverly present in the post yesterday from some loverly people. It is the new DSLR/zoom sized Gorillapod for people with large … er … camera extensions. My camera can now climb mountains, hang from trees and eat bamboo for days on end. Taking the photograph was somewhat vexing but with the use [...]
Monday morning…
October 13, 2008 – 2:56 pm
…and I’m sitting in a traffic jam on the London Orbital. I’m surrounded by a sea of small metal boxes on rubber wheels containing thousands of different minds wandering in a million different directions. Reciting ‘to do lists’ before the important meeting after lunch or wondering if Mr Smitherington will notice my arse this afternoon [...]
Surf report Portugal…
October 6, 2008 – 9:30 pm
…the first thing to report is the continued need for factor 50 on my (ever so slightly) follicle-free cranium, the water still only requires 3 millimetres of neoprene and most of the German plastic longboarders have vacated the line up. Friday – the surf however has not been so pleasant – a howling north wind [...]
A glimpse of the real Portugal…
October 2, 2008 – 8:53 pm
…is still visible if you know where to look for it. Progress has been marching through western Iberia like a premenstrual Croatian federation wrestler on her way through the chocolate aisle at Asda (Sidcup branch). Tarmac and concrete seem to be enveloping the countryside – new roads bringing prefabricated apartment blocks, supermarkets and petrol stations [...]
Apparently Jesus was a surfer…
October 1, 2008 – 4:41 pm
…the evidence is out there – you just have to look for it. The long flowing locks and irreverant attitude… The love of seafood and a drop of vinho tinto or two… I’m thinking the whole Joseph/carpentry thing was slightly misleading – dovetails shmovetails – he was shaping custom longboards for the Galilee massive. Don’t [...]