roll'd!

How come after all these years, Beaker still makes me laugh?

literary!

You may have noticed a new feature on my blog - to the right is a random selection of my Library Thing covers. This is a website where you catalogue all the books you've read, and can then rate them and find similar / recommended titles etc. Probably will take me forever to get it done, but it's good fun, especially seeing how many of a particular author I've read!

catching up with Dad!

I'm at 37 countries visited now...



create your own visited country map
or check our Venice travel guide

poetic!

I was looking for reviews on beerintheevening.com to illustrate the post below, and came across reviews from 'Haiku Dave' - pithy, witty little reviews written as a haiku. Brilliant

collective!

I discovered WikiMapia today - people have taken the maps from Google Earth and overlaid them with comments and placenames - so you can actually figure out where everywhere is. It's very addictive!

But there's no tagging for our very own Area 51, Timaru...

free!

New obsession is Freecyle - it's a group of local networks for people who want to give away, or get given, stuff for free! It's great! You have to join up (I've joined the Hackney Group) via Yahoo! Groups, then you post stuff you want, or stuff you want to get rid of, on a daily bulletin. I've just given my old knackered stereo away to some chap (bought new speakers for my iPod and that's all I need now). Then I'm going to keep a look out for a sofa, or maybe a blender too. Who knows! It's all very thrilling. Good community recycling projects!

Site of the day

We've been highly amused by Sue Townshend's habit of answering the phone "What fresh hell is this?", and wondered where the phrase comes from. Apparently it comes from Dorothy Parker, who first exclaimed it when she was interrupted from working by the telephone, and then used it whenever she answered the phone.

It's also the name of the superb What Fresh Hell is This? blog - amusing quips and sayings.