Year: 2004

  • Commuterboy Rides Again

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    Yeah. Started cycling to and from the train stations and dumping the bike on the intercity to Swansea and back today. S’alright. At least it’s not raining.

  • Alan Hinkes Off To Dhaulagiri

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    “British mountaineer Alan Hinkes has announced that his next “Challenge 8000” expedition will be to climb Dhaulagiri (8,167m), the seventh highest mountain in the world. Alan will be flying out to the Himalaya at the end of March and hopes to reach the summit during May.” The best of British to ya, Alan! I particularly…

  • iPod

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    Jack has taken a liking to my iPod. Bugger – I’m going to have to buy a mini iPod for mini me.

  • Jack’s Cut

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    Here’s that photo of Jack’s head. The damage is a few days old, and the scab actually came off after this photo. He’s a ruffty tuffty!

  • Daft Rail

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    This is dumb. Get this: if I buy a ticket on the train from Cardiff to Swansea it costs me 8.60 ukp. 8.60 x 5 = 43 If I buy a weekly season ticket for the same route it costs me 44.40 ukp. That’s a non-discount of + 1.40. What the crap is that all…

  • Morning

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    Blimey, it’s hard getting up early when Jack has already woken you up a couple of times in the night. Ug.

  • Black Swan

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    Me and the black swan at the Crippetts are stalling while we sort that photo of Jack we promised.

  • Driving Miss Daisy

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    Today the boys were karting in Newport, but I was driving miss Daisy instead (private joke: I was playing chauffeur for the evening for a 90 year old lady called Daisy). Funny how things work out, eh? I want to blog a photo of Jack, but I’m in Cheltenham for the weekend & limited to…

  • The Incredible Future Boy Versus Malevolent Gutter Punk

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    Amid warnings of getting mugged for wearing white iPod headphones we have this blogger’s tale of the mini iPod’s self defence uses: “So this guy lunged out and grabbed my shoulder as I was changing songs and, with my bag stolen just last week, I was in no mood to make any concessions of my…

  • Surgeons Who Play Video Games Err Less

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    See! I keep telling you people, but you don’t listen! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20040407/ap_on_he_me/video_game_surgery