The pudding that burns with a blue flame…
Sunday 25 December 2005
Burning pud! Originally uploaded by shepline on 26 Dec ’05, 10.38am PST.
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Sunday 25 December 2005
Christmas Day Originally uploaded by shepline on 26 Dec ’05, 10.36am PST. It’s Christmas morning, and a walk on the forest before returning to open the presents from ’round the tree… Christmas Dog Originally uploaded by shepline on 26 Dec…
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Saturday 24 December 2005
Christmas Eve Originally uploaded by shepline on 26 Dec ’05, 10.38am PST. It’s Christmas Eve, the curtains are drawn, a single present from ‘The Tree’ and a glass of port maybe; the cutting of the Christmas cake on Christmas Eve……
Continue readingCarols at Salisbury Cathedral
Thursday 22 December 2005
Carols at Salisbury Cathedral Originally uploaded by shepline on 23 Dec ’05, 11.45pm PST.
Continue readingHappy Holidays!
Wednesday 21 December 2005
Yes, I have worked my last 7¼ hours of 2005. Yay, Christmas!! 🙂
Continue readingMy life, on three sides of A4
Monday 19 December 2005
My head is imploding in words and ways of saying things The two pages of my life the curriculum vitae Sit there; new and updated and the letter One side of A4 and a tangled mess of ideas of thoughts;…
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Sunday 18 December 2005
So, another year has passed, my dear friends, and so comes my annual Christmas witterings. Work continues, as always, filling up those 7¼ hours of each working day – the accompaniment to everything else that I have been doing. The…
Continue readingHome Truths RIP
Wednesday 14 December 2005
I have to say it is not a great surprise to me that the BBC have decided to end Home Truths, as was annouced today. When John Peel died a year ago, I felt that the show was, as Radio…
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Tuesday 13 December 2005
The problem about very enjoyable four-day weekends, is that the Tuesday that follows them, is very busy. At the end of the day, I seem to have only barely made a dent in the backlog of journals to work through….
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Monday 12 December 2005
Handwriting Personality Quiz What does your handwriting say about YOU? The results of my analysis say that: I plan ahead, and I am interested in beauty, design, outward appearance, and symmetry. I am a shy, idealistic person who does not…
Continue readingThe power of radio
Monday 12 December 2005
Either that, or I’m a pathetic, emotional sap. Just listening to tonight’s episode of The Archers, and I find myself welling up, and getting emotional tears at the exchange between Betty Tucker, recovering after last nights heart attack, and her…
Continue readingA fridgeful of chocolates
Monday 12 December 2005
A fridgeful of chocolates Originally uploaded by shepline on 12 Dec ’05, 7.02pm PST. I haven’t counted them, but there’s one kilo of plain chocolate making up something like 120 plus brandy chocolate truffles sitting on a plate in my…
Continue readingCarolling at Christmas
Saturday 10 December 2005
I’m feeling properly Christmassy now. On a cold, crisp, sunny winter’s day I got myself up early on a Saturday morning to head on down to Millets Farm Centre, outside of Abingdon, and play a few carols. It’s good fun,…
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Friday 9 December 2005
I had a day off today, so I had the obligatory lie-in, before waking again, breakfasting and realising that the morning fog was still lingering like a blanket over my corner of Oxfordshire. Then I took my car round to…
Continue readingCharlotte Green and Simon Hoggart sound in Abingdon on Thursday night
Thursday 8 December 2005
No, I haven’t been to a recording of The News Quiz, but tonight at band we played Leroy Anderson’s Typewriter – the music which is (now) more famously known as the theme tune to BBC Radio 4 number one comedy/quiz/panel…
Continue readingA very festive production
Wednesday 7 December 2005
Friday night was my department’s christmas lunch. As it worked out, this was very nicely timed with my parents coming to stay for the weekend, in that i was able to get a lift into work in the morning, go…
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Thursday 1 December 2005
Girls always say that they like a nice guy; that they just want a nice guy. So why is it then, that nice guys never seem to get the girl?
Continue readingProtected: youyou (nabbed from applecatching)
Thursday 1 December 2005
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Continue readingKittentastic!
Wednesday 30 November 2005
That is all. Enjoy it… 🙂 http://web.syr.edu/~bwlee/fun_stuff/shii_song.swf
Continue readingOf alfar and huldulfolk
Tuesday 29 November 2005
In my novel, I draw on the terms alfar (Icelandic for ‘elf’) and huldulfolk (the hidden people). Currently I am re-reading Alan Garner’s excellent The Weirdstoneof Brisingamen where it has evil goblin/bad-elf type creatures the svart-alfar and the Huldrafolk. I…
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