Eleven Screwdrivers and Nine Screws (or How to kręcić a śruba)

Shortly before coming out here I traded in my venerable and slightly dented iBook for a shiny new and super sexy MacBook Pro. I’ll pause there to allow you the chance to gasp appreciatively… Ahhhh, that’s pretty… One of my main reasons for doing this, apart from the obvious goal of wanting to look really [...]

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Ghosts

The thing about writing a blog is that sometimes people who you never imagined would read it, do. Sometimes these are really great people that you may not feel you treated very well when you knew them. Sometimes these people can be upset to read that you are getting on with your life and apparently [...]

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The Gnomes of Wroclaw

Last week A and I decided to take a trip together. Originally we had wanted to go to Lvov (in Ukraine) but the fact that A now has a full time job coupled with the fact that I now have a full time hole in my wallet meant that we had to be slightly less [...]

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Lee’s blog

I worked with Lee Lawrence for 10 years on and off at Diagram. It has to be said that for the first eight years or so our interactions were somewhat impeded by a bit of a personality clash but eventually we established some kind of mutual respect through countless hours of playing Unreal Tournament (Roger [...]

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In praise of A

It has been brought to my attention by a particularly strange dream I had last night that I haven’t said enough about A in these ramshackle musings. She’s great! Ok, that’s a bit vague. She’s kind of like the brains and humour of Victoria Wood packed into Courtney Cox’s body and then shrunk down to [...]

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Education, education, education

My average day is spent working at the school. That is to say, doing my work at the school, not working for the school. During the summer they have classes in the morning, from 8 to 10, and in the evening from 5.30 to 8, so I have the place to myself most of the [...]

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Roving on my rower

I bought a bike! It’s green, shiny, and my new best friend. Ok, it’s no longer in the first flush of it’s youth (who amongst us is?) but the wheels go round more or less in the same direction and several of the gears work almost all the time. What prompted a stolid advocate of [...]

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