On a recent trip to Luxembourg we spent some time before our flight left for City Airport by playing crazy golf. The players were: Deborah Causton, Susan Engel, Chris Greenway and myself (Karl Bunyan). The scorecards for each of us are below: Deborah’s scorecard: Deborah’s total: 86 Susan’s scorecard: Susan’s total: 78 Chris’scorecard: Chris’ total: …
I stayed last night in the Jasmine B&B in Southwold. It was actually closer to Reydon, an adjoining town, and about 20 minutes walk from Southwold high street and seafront. The B&B was tiny, with only 3 rooms (en-suite), but a friendly welcome. In fact, the whole thing is more like staying in a friend’s …
These awards for the worst writing of 2005 make excellent reading. Some of my favourites Captain Burton stood at the bow of his massive sailing ship, his weathered face resembling improperly cured leather that wouldn’t even be used to make a coat or something.Bryan Semrow, Oshkosh, WI It was high noon in the jungles of …
I went along to the Herzog & de Meuron exhibition at the Tate Modern this Sunday just gone. Although it was kind of interesting in terms of a ‘thought process’ kind of thing, it really didn’t explain much, and there was no clear train of thought to follow from concept to building which would really …
I’ve just come back from the blues and jazz festival in Luxembourg. A few of us went out for the festival but also to jump out of a plane (with parachutes attached) and now I’ve managed to steal other people’s photos to upload. The people in the photos are generally a mix of myself, Chris …
It is so hot today and after having a busy morning the heat has finally driven me insane and I feel just like the picture below:
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Dave Edwards decided to have a barbecue to ‘celebrate’ moving out. I believe it was probably the worst equipped barbecueing event I’ve ever attended as we were lacking in what I consider to be the key barbecue prerequisites: A garden Any furniture A barbecue The first was remedied by squatting in the patch of gravel …
Just poking through my web logs I found some very odd referrers to this blog. Having mentioned the word ‘poker’ a couple of times (there, I’ve done it again) invites hordes of robot spiders from various poker sites pinging the odd page in the hope that I’ll go and look at their sites. Yeah, right. …
I would have thought that if anywhere was going to be free from decisions based on faith rather than facts then it would be the world of IT. How wrong that seems to be. There seem to be a particular set of zealots in the computing world, especially around the internet, who have a reglious …