mild mannered janitor
Posted in stuff on Jan 30th, 2010
It has been quiet on the blog front recently hasn’t it? There’s a pile of very good excuses reasons for that: principally that I haven’t done much very interesting. And what does the modern man with his finger on the legumes do when he hasn’t done much very interesting? He writes about it on Twitter: [...]
Posted in stuff on Jun 2nd, 2009
I have come to the conclusion that this writing project I had undertaken is now a forlorn hope, at least in terms of getting it published. Regular phone calls and emails to the publishers have yielded no response and the company website maintains a non-comittal “Under Construction” silence. Sunday was the deadline for submitting my [...]
Posted in stuff on Feb 13th, 2009
Listening to Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie via the interweb this evening. They play “Close to me” by The Cure. A few minutes later the following exchange on air…
Mark: Hi to Nick in Todmorden. He writes “I sliced my courgette in time with The Cure. Sounded great!”
Stuart: Lets hope that’s not a euphemism…
What I love [...]
I’ve been glued today to facebook, flickr and twitter checking out my friends’ pictures of snowy London. The Guardian also did a cool googlemaps mash-up showing snowy scenes sent in by readers. One thing is clear: given half a chance most Brits are desperate to make a snowman! An old-school snowman too - carrot nose, [...]
Posted in stuff on Oct 25th, 2008
It’s been nearly a month since I last posted anything to ateabutnoe.com. That makes it sound like I’ve been prolifically posting elsewhere but that’s not the case. The case is that I’ve been a bit knackered and a teeny bit under the weather: the double whammy of the changing seasons in Calgary and a quick [...]
Posted in stuff on Aug 18th, 2008
Put that into Google and you’ll find surely the greatest named Olympian of all time. Prince Octopus Dzanie of the Ghanaian boxing team!
Posted in stuff on Jul 15th, 2008
I’ve surfed home this evening on a massive wave of 80s nostalgia having seen Son of Rambow - I can’t recommend it highly enough. I took me right back I can tell you… Corona bottles… kids saying “Skill!”… and don’t get me started on my years in the Plymouth Brethren. Happy days.
It also reminded me [...]
Posted in stuff on May 27th, 2008
In honour of England somehow winning the last Test…
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Posted in stuff on May 21st, 2008
The timing of my trip home was planned to coincide with my 20 year school reunion. I still see quite a few school friends but there are plenty I haven’t seen since 1988 so I was really looking forward to it. It was being organised by my good friend Jig in his capacity as President [...]