Ach! A meme! Run for yor lives! Following the lead of such luminaries as Mr Webb and Mr Coates, here is what appears when I type en.wikipedia.org/wiki into my browser (at work, it will be different at home). They’ve called it their ‘contrail‘ and so shall I. All links to descriptions of ‘Methods of Torture’… Continue reading My Wikipedia Contrail
Month: June 2006
Just A Couple More Boxes In The Car
Went up to Bedford at the weekend, to visit my brother, and go through the final piles of boxes from my Dad’s house. It was mostly a case of throwing stuff out, but I did come away with the following… a bag of Hornby train carriages and track (to be donated to the Robin Deacon… Continue reading Just A Couple More Boxes In The Car
Test Of AutoBlock Plugin
This is a test of the autoblock blosxom plugin. It automatically puts HTML block tags around paragraphs. So this paragraph is made into a P. It currently only works for P, BLOCKQUOTE and PRE. This will be a BLOCKQUOTE (because of the space at the beginning) This is PRE code, because of the two colons… Continue reading Test Of AutoBlock Plugin
Arturo Pluggy
Katy, who played someone who got killed 4 times a night, whilst with child, for the masses of Merton, saw this in her work bathroom. Ring any bells? When inanimate objects look like cast members.
Electric Haywain
From the archives, here’s another book with the wrong style of cover.
A Dream Of Making An Album
…just not in the way you think. I had a really vivid dream the other night, and when I woke up it was still so clear in my head that I scribbled down the gist of it before I forgot. This post is the result of those notes. As the story starts, I was working… Continue reading A Dream Of Making An Album
Mr Homer’s Odyssey
Finally got round to doing another of these – books with the wrong style of cover.
Alternative Bookcovers
I’m all confused about where these have been posted, so here they all are from Flickr. What happens when a book cover design doesn’t match the style of the contents? This does. Mein Kampf in Chicklit style Kids book in Thriller style Necronomicon in Dictionary style American Psycho in Teen Romance Style UPDATE: Boing Boing… Continue reading Alternative Bookcovers
Shuggie in Action
Just to show you what he can be like, here are some pics of Shug in better health. Shuggie wondering where the duck went Shuggie relaxing Shuggie & Mairi Shuggie asleep on my bed
1970s Family Slides Part I
Amongst all my Dads stuff were many many slides, dating back to the 1960s. We picked out a select 100, and Robin is in the process of scanning them for me. Here’s what we have so far… Me playing with my sister Jacquie My sister Jacquie with me, and Simon in front. My Mum leaning… Continue reading 1970s Family Slides Part I