Back to work tomorrow and the usual shock that I have to work for a living. Expect me to be dazed, confused, and a couple of thousand kilometres distant until I manage to regain my bearings. Photos will appear on Flickr, and anecdotes will inevitably follow, of cat calls and haggling, of merguez and medinas…
Category Archives: Update
A bad time to go quiet
My blog traffic spiked up in the last few weeks and then… I fell silent. Parents are visiting, job is busy and life has generally been unforgiving. Promise more will follow, erm, in late April, after I get back from the holiday we have planned for Tunisia.
Very exciting!
Hope y’all are well.
Also, my BBQ turned up yesterday. It is a Weber Q220, which I understand are the Mac Daddies of affordable gas BBQs, and I can’t wait to get grilling.
More planning needed
You wouldn’t necessarily know it from reading this blog, but I’m a decent writer. I’m capable of structuring arguments, thoughts, speeches, presentations and so on fairly well — I’m not claiming to be Martin Amis, but, y’know, not one of the manatees writing Family Guy (which, for the record, I am a fan of, but do criticise for being excruciatingly lazy with its writing from time to time. Blue Harvest, anyone?).
Anyway: once again, rather than taking that as a random diversion let’s call it an exemplar of what happens when you don’t plan a piece of writing. And that’s the temptation with blogs, just to hit “write new post” and spout random rubbish that’s occured to you that day. Well, no more! Or, at least, a little less. I plan to… plan more.
I should perhaps rename this blog the blog of unresolved resolutions. But I’m not sure that scans well.
Lovely (shhhhhhh) new neighbourhood
Love my new neighbourhood, generally. Today, however, whilst getting some much needed building work done, instead of someone having a word with us discretely to let us know that the chaps sawing up wood were making maybe a little much noise and could we maybe keep it down, they sicked the council on us. Fair enough, turns out we were working out of regulation hours, but a quiet word rather than the council watchdog would have been ample. We’re not out to annoy anyone.
Grrr. Sometimes English reticence is just downright annoying.
Sofa shopping
Is not fun. Everything good costs a fortune and people seem surprisingly willing to sell crap for significant sums of money. The folks at Sofa Workshop ended up being best suited for us but really weren’t cheap. That said, the service was good, the follow up excellent, the access check impressive, and the number of customisable options very satisfactory.
I can’t wait till the house is sorted so I can get back to *only* shopping online.
Resolutions
To get fit.
To write more.
To be more passionate.
To be a better brother.
Bring it, 2008.
Traditional Christmas
Just returned from a wonderful, traditional English Christmas (with a lovely Danish family, oddly enough). Christmas on the Browns was vast, endless fun involving much eating, some playing (Wii and the Uno-esque Danish card game, Ourtzen, amongst others) and lots of head-stroking with Dylan, the family dog.
And, can I just say: Christmas Hams Are Awesome.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
I’m recovering from man-flu and work and heading off to yon countryside for Christmas. Have an excellent season, everyone, and speak soon. Stay classy, London. The World. San Diego.
Whatever. Hope you have a fantastic holiday.
So…
I’ve failed to blog for weeks. I suck. I’m sorry. Life’s just too insane.
Follow me on Twitter for the time being and I’ll get some writing in over Christmas. Promise.
Good intentions
Had such good intentions today. Was going to blog about everything — in the world. As it is, have watched too much My Name is Earl, done too many household chores, and purposelessly upgraded WordPress and am now just knackered.
Next week — more follow through. I am resolved. Have a good week, everyone.