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~ It’s been gorgeously sunny weather today. After a much-needed lay in we got up leisurely before heading out to Bicester town to buy vegetables from the market stall. There happened ot be an Italian market in the street too,…
Continue readingimaginary /i’madʒin(ɘ)ri/ adjective & noun. lme. [origin Latin imaginarius, from imagin-, imago: see image noun, -ary1.] ‣ A adjective. 1 Existing only in the imagination; not real or actual. lmE.
Continue readingWhilst I was busy having the mad day that was yesterday, Emma kindly went back over to the antique and junk shop in Waddesdon to buy the Adana presses that we saw on Tuesday. For a nice round tenner, I…
Continue readingToday has been quite a day; a really good day. Shortly after 9 o’clock I got a call on my mobile – private number. This is it, I thought. And it was; one of my interviewers from yesterday. I was…
Continue readingI have just been been offered and accepted for a new permanent job. From 5th October I shall be a Web Designer for Oxford Brookes University. It’s a proper job with a modest pay rise, good holidays, sickness, a final…
Continue readingIf you missed celebrating this moment in history, remember to put in your diary the following dates: Sunday 10 October 2010 10:10:10 Friday 11 November 2011 11:11:11 (surely one ought to do something extra-special by way of remembrance at this…
Continue readingHave just seen in a little antique shop some of these Adana printing machines. Apparently there’s a ‘box of stuff’ that goes with them, and the whole lot could be mine for a tenner. I’m seriously considering it – although…
Continue readingSo, finally, the day for the long-awaited interview for a Web Designer job at Oxford Brookes has come. I applied for this job at the back-end of July, whilst still on on jobsworth seekers allowance, but it wasn’t for another…
Continue readingCycling into Oxford this morning was like entering a new city; a city that exists but once a year. It’s like a city within a city; a whole other world that has arrived overnight and taken over Oxford. The Fair…
Continue readingToday we’ve been both lazy and not all lazy, both at the same time. By lazy, I mean that we didn’t go anywhere or do anything dramatic. By not-at-all lazy, I mean that we have cleaned out the chickens and…
Continue readingAbingdon Concert Band are doing a Hallowe’en Concert this year, as the spooky night falls on a Saturday this year. I got the impression that they were going to play it very much for laughs, and so I produced a…
Continue readingI’ve been making steady progress with Mr Tumnal’s story this week, and as I do the details of his curious life are firmed up in my mind. It has bothered me that I don’t know exactly how this story is…
Continue readingSo I’ve been paid! Finally! That said, given that this was for two invoices of x×y where x is my hours and y in my hourly rate, how come: 2x(x×y > p after t has been deducted where p is…
Continue readingposed the following question recently: Is magic the defining element of fantasy? Discuss. And in reply to this defined it thus: Impossibility-within-currently-known-laws-of-nature is the defining element of fantasy, and magic is the most prominent (but not the only) presentation of…
Continue readingI think what the Royal Society are trying to do, is circumvent global warming skeptics from coming out with the argument, ‘I’ve heard that we can do this and this and this to correct changes in the climate, why haven’’t…
Continue readingProfessor Bryan Hoskins put it very nicely on this morning’s Today programme: it may be possible to treat a help a fat man with pills, but its best to do try and help him with his diet and exercise regime…
Continue readingThere are certain books, for which the publication of them, is an event. I’m just hoping that Diana Wynne Jones’s new book, Enchanted Glass is every bit as good as her last, House Of Many Ways, and not one of…
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