Which of Henry VIII’s wives are you? this quiz was made by the groovtastic ghouls at Spookbot

Idea from veeb, show me yours – no rearranging allowed, just go straight in at random with one shot.

Yay to me! I think this is my best time ever! Next time, I shall definitely try for 40 in 40, but we shall see about that… 😉 I’m by no means a proficient or (particularly) elegant swimmer, but I…

I’m speaking of Icelandic group Írafár, who I happened to discover this weekend, in a random perusal of my irrelevant links page, have a new album out. Kind of Catatonia-like but in Icelandic, I find myself thinking, me must buy,…

I’m actually standing on a traffic island next to the martyr’s memorial with my back to the Randolf Hotel, but I swear I could be up in Yorkshire in the mid-nineteenth century spying on Jane and Mr Rochester…

Another trip into Oxford yesterday with my camera in toe, and my eyes open to photographs, and here’s with the results…

And it took me a while to work out what I had to do?!!! I did it in 10 seconds.I deserved an A+!!Take the How Dexterous Are You? Quiz!!

Where I work, I can look up into the atrium at the skylights above, and the patterns that the sun casts, are really very striking…

From my Estonian holiday – I’m going to try and draw this guy – mind you I will need one heck of a big piece of paper!

Following advice from last time, I have tried drawing this poor victim – Helen – from a photograph upside down. And here, the results…

Well, it’s an Oxford college actually — but it does seem strikingly like it could be facade of Mr Rochester’s great house…

I must remember to take more pictures of the sunset from my bedroom window… Decided to mooch around Oxford today as it was a grey (and subsequently) wet November Sunday. Picked up a couple of books for my Mum in…

Listened to this on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme on Thursday… SHELL SCULPTURE Maggi Hambling’s giant shell sculpture, built to honour Composer Benjamin Britten, is now installed on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk where Britten used to live. John Wilson…