Archive for the 'ambitions in life' Category
We are a Medium
I bought a new belt, as do-it-yourself belt holes tend to be unsatisfactory. As of right now, I’m officially a Medium in belt sizes, not a Large. This is because I have dropped around 7kg (a stone… ish) since starting WeightWatchers (online) just under 6 weeks ago.
You don’t need to be a maths genius to [...]
Filed under: Education, Entertainment, Exercise, Middle Age, Movies, Time-Wasters, ambitions in life, arts, film, happiness, health, marketing, media studies | 4 Comments
Tags: diets, lifestyle, slimming, weight loss, weightwatchers
Strictly for Car Bores
Billy, look away now.
2008 will be the year I replace my car. Probably. I figure the middle of a credit crunch is a good time to do this. My current car is 5 years old and has nearly done 100,000 miles. It’s reaching the point where components will start to fail through wear and tear. [...]
Filed under: Commuting, ambitions in life, motoring | 4 Comments
New new new new new
One of the truisms about media/advertising is that advertisers are keen on the 16-34 year old demographic, because it’s relatively cheaper to persuade one of these individuals to try something new, or to change brands. The over 40s, on the other hand, while they may have more disposable income than the younger age group, are [...]
Filed under: Character, Culture, Education, Middle Age, Perception, Technology, ambitions, ambitions in life, anxiety, happiness, health, marketing, media studies, presentations | 2 Comments
Now, that’s what I call Easter…
Easter seems really early this year, but for once is falling on the correct date, more or less, the spring equinox, which is nice.
My school had an inset day today, ahead of the long weekend, and the task was to moderate coursework. For various reasons, I’ve given up chasing students for late work, so I’m [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Character, Education, ambitions, ambitions in life, being chippy, media studies, teaching and learning | 2 Comments
If that’s a gagging order…?
QFD: Quelle Fashion Disaster
Poor old Heather Mills emerged from court today wearing a cobbled-together outfit: some kind of suit made from remnants of other clothing. She’s reduced to sewing together pieces of her old clothes because she’s been left penniless by her divorce settlement. She gets to keep the family caravan in Wales and Evil [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Baby Boomers, Beatles, Character, Commuting, Conspiracy Theories, Entertainment, Luvvies, Time-Wasters, ambitions in life, being chippy, clothes, narcissism | 1 Comment
Wheat Petite
There’s a kid at my school with diabetes and celiac, a double whammy of can’t-eat-that diseases, who has been told he won’t live far into his 20s.
Gluten is funny stuff. In my search for the perfect home-baked loaf (and I’m a long way off achieving this), I’ve often been nonplussed by the food fact that [...]
Filed under: ambitions in life, food, health | 2 Comments
A short-lived enterprise
Although I applied to be an exam marker this summer, it turns out that I am unlikely to be able to do this, not because I’m not qualified, but because in the very near future all marking will take place on-line.
Yes, you think, the network is the computer and all that. There are plenty of [...]
Filed under: Apple, Conspiracy Theories, Education, Technology, ambitions in life, anxiety, omens and portents, paranoia, weasels | 1 Comment
Snapper
I’ve been using my Minolta A200 digital camera for almost exactly 3 years now. When I first started using a digital, new models were appearing from the manufacturers every 6–8 months, a rapid product-development cycle that must have been crippling in terms of R and D.
But there was no consistency. The manufacturers would change form [...]
Filed under: Technology, ambitions in life | 4 Comments
Tags: olympus cameras, photography
Paranoid Bloggers Unite
Is it a coincidence I wonder that I blog a couple of times about baking a sourdough loaf a couple of weeks ago and this weekend the Guardian group newspapers decide to publish baking supplements? I wonder how that idea was presented to the editor? “Yeah, just woke up one day and it came to [...]
Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, Education, Music, Recipes, ambitions, ambitions in life, anxiety, autobiography, being chippy, food, marketing, narcissism, omens and portents, paranoia, teaching and learning, weasels | Leave a Comment
Tags: Shuffleathon 07
Nostalgia Bulletin
It was 20 years ago today not that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play but that Michael Fish gave that weather forecast before the big storm. We’ve had a few since, I guess, but that was quite a night. I remember getting up the next day and driving down the motorway to Luton (from [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, BBC, Climate, Nostalgia, ambitions in life, autobiography, being chippy, climate change, friendship, happiness, secret girlfriends | 1 Comment
