Year: 2007

  • BBC Mondays

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    After headlining the affects of Friday afternoon skiving on the British economy, the BBC website today asks, “Got the Monday blues?” and offers “Another stressful week on the coalface to get through? Brighten up your day with BBC comedy clips.” So now they’re encouraging Monday morning skiving! Fair enough. BBC comedy clips online.

  • On the beach

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    Fishing by the sea. Thinking?

  • New Apple Keyboards

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    *Big girlish scream!* New brushed aluminium Apple keyboards! OK, so there’s a new aluminium iMac (what happened to consumer white vs pro alu?), new iLife, new iWorks and stuff, but just look at those keyboards! Apple link.

  • Port Eynon

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    Brave boy. He insisted on going swimming in the sea, but when we got in there we jumped over the waves and didn’t quite get swimming. The sun needs to get a bit hotter yet. Google Maps.

  • Friday feeling costs firms £50m

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    The BBC are running an article about the costs of skiving on Friday afternoons (on a Friday when a friend of mine has spent his morning sending me itinerant text messages and photos of today’s fishing trip, funnily enough). “A growing number of staff are treating the last day of the working week as an…

  • Geraint Thomas Finishes Tour

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    He’s the man! Geraint completed the Tour de France on Saturday. Awesome. He told the BBC, “Everyone dreams of riding down the Champs-Elysee and finishing the Tour, I’m happy to get here but feeling it.” “I don’t think you can imagine how hard, fast and chaotic it is out there until you actually do it.”…

  • Star Wars Characters

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    Jack’s loving Star Wars at the moment: “Hey look Dad, I’m Bib Fortuna. Stormtrooper. (Lazy costume). Star Wars baking. Notice Chewbacca, a couple of Darth Vaders, and a Boba Fett.

  • Summer?

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    Summer’s here! (?)

  • Recent snaps

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    Spot Jack. Jack’s office. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Lollipops for all. Dancing with Megan.

  • Spying Squirrels

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    Not only have man-eating badgers been released into Iraq by the British, but apparently hi-tech squirrel (cyborg?) spies have been released by foreign intelligence services into Iran. I say “cyborg” because the translated text reads, “Fixing GPS devices, bugging instruments and advanced cameras in the bodies of trained animals like squirrels, mice, hamsters”. Hardware inside…