7 Days: Day 2 – Create

The first of this run’s theme days: create. Of course I knew I’d be showing off my knitting when I chose this theme. I made Lauren choose the colour theme for day 5 because I found myself staring around my office, looking for something I’d find easy for that day … and cheating twice is [...]

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7 Days: Day 1 – My book

The postman brought me a hotly awaited parcel yesterday: my first photo book, made using Apple’s iPhoto. Making a photo book is on my list of things to do this year and I’d finally got one designed, finished and ordered. It’s quite nerve-wracking uploading the book, hoping to God that you haven’t missed any typos [...]

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Damn my temporal lobe and all who misfire in her

The past few months I’ve had a little trouble with episodes of “feeling funny”. This horrid feeling was familiar to me as the precursor to the seizures I had back in 1999/2000 when a chronic cerebral abscess was giving me shit. That was subsequently removed and thrown across the room in disdain by my brilliant [...]

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Krystyn, whom I find mesmerising and very slightly intimidating, tagged me for this. It’s a meme. I didn’t kill it, but I did change some of the spelling and grammar. I know how to party. 1. Does someone love you? Too many to list. 2. What colour is your couch? Terracotta. (Cue my parents muttering [...]

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Roughly 1000 words on why you shouldn’t go to Dim T

There’s a branch of the Dim T restaurant chain in Tunbridge Wells. I’ve walked past it many times and had it filed away as a venue for dinner with the girls at some point. I thought it looked exotic (I realise now that I just liked the logo) and wanted to try dim sum too. [...]

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7 Days returns. Again.

The 7 Days self-portrait project is back. You’re all very pretty – especially you boys – so come and join us for another 7 days of self-portraits, vanity, comment love and general frivolity! Lauren and I will be discussing what the theme days will be over dim sum tomorrow and they will be announced on [...]

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In which you learn the German for “skid marks”

Finally we get to the actual reason I was in Bratislava at the end of August: music. I’ve told you about my musician before and having cursed the concert in Vienna with a rainstorm that damaged the stage and equipment, Bratislava was another attempt to see a concert on Hubert’s 2007 tour. And I actually [...]

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Ladies, this is Cumil

Cumil has slightly disturbing neon green eyes, but he’s also been run over a lot, so I think we can excuse him. He’s a bronze statue in Bratislava, but because he’s emerging from the ground, he’s been knocked about a bit by drivers and now the city have given him his own road sign to [...]

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