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June 18, 2014
Simple Things – Portchester Castle
The older I get, the more I seen to enjoy simple things. A walk with the dog, time spent on the allotment.
When time allows we’ll often jump in the car and go slightly further afield for a dog walk. One of our regular haunts is Portchester Castle. They don’t let dogs into the remains of the castle proper, but you can walk inside the outer wall when it’s open, or around the outside at any time.
There’s a church within the outer walls which seems very popular for weddings, so much so that I hav...
June 7, 2014
Allotment Video Update 7th June 2014
With some fairly unsettled weather forecast for today, I thought I’d snag a quick video at the allotment. You can find my previous update here.
And about 40 minutes after recording the video above, this happened!
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April 21, 2014
Ball Jump (Full Speed & Slo Mo)
For whatever reason instagram wouldn’t let me upload the slo mo version of this video, so posting here.
April 20, 2014
Book Review – The House of Dolls by David Hewson
It’s not often t
hat I can stay up late reading a book, my body / mind can’t cope and I fall asleep, however over the last weekI’ve been staying up, turning the pages of David Hewson‘s new book. The House of Dolls is set in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, where it’s main character Pieter Vos lives on a houseboat. Vos is a former police detective, who left the job following the kidnapping of his daughter Anneliese. He’s dragged back to his former life by another kidnapping that has similarities to...
April 15, 2014
Quick Review: Big Allotment Challenge BBC2 Tuesday 15th April
I’d been looking forward to this series starting on BBC2, a show about the challenges of an allotment, growing your own produce and what you can make or do with it. Or at least that was what I was expecting, but it wasn’t what the program was about.
It was more about the competition element of having an allotment. A bit like the annual village horticultural show on steroids. Very little about the effort that it takes to grow vegetables and flowers of the standard required to show, and much mor...
April 10, 2014
Out today… The House of Dolls
I’m really looking forward to reading David’s latest book.
Amsterdam = a city that I know relatively well, but am expecting to discover in a whole new set of ways.
Pieter Vos = a new series character. I love a series read, and Nic Costa was one of the best, so am expecting more of the same, plus there is already a second in the pipeline.Come on UPS, hurry up and deliver already!
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April 5, 2014
April 4, 2014
Today’s conversation with a caller from ‘Microsoft’
The Dark Knight writes books too, great books…
Originally posted on David Hewson:
INT. OFFICE – MORNING
DAVID sits at a desk staring at a screen, almost ready to type. The phone rings. He answers.
SAMANTHA (O.S.)
(bright young sub-Indian Continent voice)
Hello. This is Samantha from the Microsoft Window Control Centre. To whom do I have the honour of addressing?
DAVID
Batman.
A long pause. O.S behind the phone call we become aware of the loud noise of a busy call centre. It sounds like a...
March 29, 2014
The Story of Murphy
It began like many a Saturday morning. I got up before breakfast and went to take my dog Wilson for a walk. We had two dogs until quite recently, Wilson and Sparky, but Sparky’s time had come and we lost him eight days before.
Anyway we’d gotten as far as the pedestrian crossing to get into the park, when we could see a dog on its own, barking. As we went to cross the dog came running towards us, tail up and happy to see us. However not the best way to approach a strange dog, who you’ve never...
March 13, 2014
Allotment Video Playlist
Clearly I have too much time on my hands, but here’s a playlist of all my allotment videos that have made it onto YouTube. I’m sure that there are a few more out there that didn’t make it there, as there are a few big gaps in the chronology. If you have nothing better to do for over two and a half hours, feel free to watch!
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