Memories of the Greatest Ship in the Galaxy

Over the weekend at my parents for my Mum’s birthday and something I;ve been waiting to do for some time… get the big box of Lego down from the loft for my daughters to explore.
And yes I might have joined in a little bit.
Like many Lego fans of my age, there was only one Lego [...]

Akoha and Fighting For The Personal Touch Online

Have we lost the Human factor online (and no I’m not talking about the Evil of the Daleks, but if anyone in Zimbabwe would care to look for the tapes…)? Two discrete data points today and an experience from my time in the US leads me to think that the next big change online could [...]

Happy Hogmanay From Scotland

Edinburgh is rightly world famous for its Hogmanay celebrations to see in the New Year. Lots of people (mostly ex-pats) have asked me if I was heading into town for The Bells.
Actually I did that years ago many times; now I just stand in the living room window, with a view of the Castle and [...]

Eurovision Halloween Special

Halloween today, and to ‘celebrate’ most of the local primary school/nursery got dressed up and invited the parents into the school for the school breakfast mornings that happen reasonably regularly. So this morning was time for a last minute, super quick, costume. And being Halloween, it has to be something genuinely scary. Oh and not [...]

Sponsor Vikki’s Driving Day for The Fire Fighters Charity

Vikki’s asked me to cross-post this from her Facebook Wall…
My dad was a fire fighter, and while he was lucky enough to only suffer minor injuries in his 25+ years of service, he knew of many others who were more seriously injured. This Sunday I’ll be taking part in a driving challenge (ok, a Ladies’ [...]

Papercraft Ceiling Cat (Real World LOLcats)

Been a rather arts and crafts day today, and I finally got around to sorting out some paper models, specifically Tubbypaws’ papercraft Ceiling Cat…
Meow, everyone loves lolcats, so here’s a happy paper fun model of the omnipresent, forever watchful, ceiling cat.

Here he is, close up for the first and last time. I changes the design [...]

The Delightfully Subversive and Entertaining Enchanted

As the family and I strolled up to the local cinema to watch the latest Disney film, Enchanted, I cast my mind back to the numerous ‘Saturday Matinees’ my Dad would take me to every weekend afternoon. Looking back now, these were a mix of classic films, lots of action, and just the sort of [...]

My Dad, the Browncoat

Christmas 2006 saw everyone pitch in for a Playstation Portable for my Dad, and since then he’s been working through Tomb Raider (and finsihed it at the end of Feb). One of the other things that I showed him was how to get DVD’s onto the PSP (which resulted in him ripping “Snakes on a [...]

Denmark, Here I Come

Wasn’t really going to blog about the long weekend to Denmark (leaving in a few hours) but my visit seems to have caused a stir in Copenhagen. I’ll be attending a bloggers brunch tomorrow (Saturday) at 11am, Café Elvira on Østerfælled Torv 24-26, København Ø. Love the name, BTW. Henriette’s organising my attendance, and I;ve [...]

And now, our Senior Moving House Correspondant…

Almost settled into the new house – if you want the new postal address please drop me an email (ewanspence@gmail.com), but the most important thing is that Telewest has fitted the broadband, and the new cable box is the Telewest TV Drive (a Tivo style personal video recorder). And that means…

…the first thing I did [...]

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