This started out as a comment on Matthew’s blog post, but I then hit the word limit and decided that it probably worked better as a proper blog post! So, if you haven’t already, go and read Matthew’s blog post, and then pretend that you’re reading a comment on his blog. (Except that here it’s…

I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but over the past week or so there’s been a bit of an outcry about a website called “Marital Affairs”. Well, it wasn’t actually the website itself, it was an advert for the website which as far as I can tell has been posted up nationwide. Anyway,…

I was thinking the other day about artists – particularly in music – who were better off together than they were apart. For example, Lennon and McCartney. Both fine songwriters separately, but when put together they really came up with something amazing. In fact, the Beatles as a band seemed to pull together to form…

So, Phil and I have started watching “Glee”, which is a new American comedy. Apparently Alex and Sarah both really like it, and Alex gave us some episodes to watch through (it’s being shown on Channel 4 at the moment I think). Anyway, as it started out I didn’t think I was going to like…

This weekend was the 3rd Annual Colchester Winter Beer Festival, held at Colchester Arts Centre. We went along on Saturday afternoon, and met up wtih Alex, Matt, Tom and Alison. In general it was a very good afternoon, as always! Afterwards we headed to the Ashiana for a curry, which I managed most of even…

Hah. In “my room” (a/k/a the study) in our house I have a piano, two guitars, and an effects pedal. The piano has the ability to record things, and it also has the ability to pretend to be a bass. The effects pedal has a little drum machine on it. Can you see where this…

Well, I think the time has finally come to replace our aging TV. I’m not entirely sure how old it is, it was my Nan’s old TV before she died, but I’m guessing it’s around 10-15 years old. Anyway, now seems like the right time to be buying a TV: High-Definition (HD) is becoming common,…

Quick weekend update: it was pretty standard, except for Friday night. 21 was cancelled because of the snow (apparently all the schools were closed around so it made sense). Luckily for us that meant we were able to go to the Ashiana – for the second time in a week! – with Dan, Tom and…

Not new mattress troubles (although, for what it’s worth, the new mattress is very comfortable now). The problem is with the old mattress. We don’t have a big enough car to take it to the rubbish tip – we’ve just had it in the spare room for the past few months. Anyway, we eventually got…

The problem with ‘snow’ is that it’s too easy to pun with! So, once again, apologies for the terrible pun. The snow has rather caused problems here, as you might imagine. I’ve been working from home today: I did try to get to Chelmsford, but the conditions were too poor. I think the roads had…