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Month: December 2003

  • The devil is in…

    Crumbs! This getting married malarkey is hard work! And incredibly expensive. We’ve just been and booked the venue (deposit = one month’s net pay) and checked out the church (yes, I know – me, a confirmed atheist, getting married in church). We’ve costed out the food and wine for the guests (yikes!), allocated some cash for flowers (double yikes!) and music (yikes again!) and figured out how many favours we can call in (photographers, wedding car owners, floral artists, musicians – we’re coming for you!) in order to keep costs down to a figure that won’t leave us mired in debt for the whole of our married life.

    I’m having palpitations.
    But I’m also determined that we should enjoy it, so now that some of the fundamentals are falling into place (and Hels is wonderful at organising all this – it’s all in very safe and capable hands), I’m hoping we can relax a little over Christmas and New Year and soak it all up a little. And I know it is going to be a fun and fabulous day, as it should be.

  • Weebl and Bob

    New Weebl and Bob….. here.

  • Older women

    It looks like I’m going to become just another statistic.

  • Spam

    Looks like I have a bit of problem with someone spamming my comments. I’ve deleted five this morning, all from the same IP address (now banned), all with a link to a site offering pills that would, supposedly, enlarge my parts.
    I’ve heard of an anti-spam gizmo for MT, so if this continues to be a problem, I may install it.

  • Fan and ball

    It’s been linked everywhere, but this game is simple, infuriating and wonderfully executed.

  • Making Fiends

    Making Fiends episode 6, featuring an extra extra extra extra extra large flea collar.

  • Blog census

    Tom wants to know how many UK-based blogs there are. If you are not already listed there, you can help Tom with his useful research by submitting your site to the list of blogs at weblogs.co.uk.

  • Copenhagen photographs

    A few photographs from our trip to Copenhagen:

    under a bridge
    This is the view under the Knippelsbro. It just looked fantastically atmospheric that morning. In a way, all that was needed was an old Rover P5 and John Thaw, and you’d have had a scene from any one of a dozen episodes of The Sweeney. Except it would be in Denmark, obviously.

    Hels
    My beautiful fiancée, leaning against a pillar whilst I faff around taking silly pictures of nothing in particular under a bridge.

    beautifully designed building
    Very close to the Knippelsbro was this building, the Asiatisk Plads. I don’t think it was anything special, simply some offices, but to me it was supremely beautiful – the simplicity of form and design, the linear grace, even the little details of the security lighting on the outside. I’m not sure that Hels agreed with me entirely on this, but I thought it was great. We saw a whole lot of extremely well-designed buildings in Copenhagen – not fancy or gimmicky, just stylish and smart. Also, there generally wasn’t a lot of graffiti or flyposting around on the buildings to spoil the look.

    glögg
    Hels stirring a cup of glögg when we were in Malmö. This drink will always be in our memories of this trip, and we plan to serve it at our wedding.

    Malmö
    Malmö – not so very different in general appearance from Copenhagen, though clearly without that capital city oomph. A view of the buildings in Drottninggatan.

    window
    Many towns and cities have a typical look for their local buildings – the more traditional ones at least. Chichester is famous for its Georgian doors – there is even a book on the subject. In Copenhagen, the norm is red brick, but there are also a large number of buildings that are rendered or painted in this lovely warm mustard yellow colour. This one was on Nyhavn.

  • More space stuff

    NASA proposes a nuclear powered probe to the Jovian moons.

    BBC News report.
    NASA’s official JIMO homepage.

  • Mars update

    As expected, Japan’s Nozomi Mars mission has been aborted due to technical failure.