S*T*U*F*F* Reloaded

Last night my friend David “Wildcard” Tughan called me to say he had a spare ticket for an Oscar Peterson show in the Royal Albert Hall. Being as it was a fine summer’s evening, not to mention the fact that Oscar Peterson is regarded by many as the greatest jazz pianist of all time, I [...]

I’ve been designing the new and improved g-raff site. Initially I was thinking of going quite left of centre. Then I thought that was a bad idea. We’re going to do what we do - simple, content that just gets the point across and some smart little Flash bits. Isn’t everyone doing that?
No. Web 2.0. [...]

Raining in London. I don’t mind today, as I feel a bit under the weather. My voice has headed off for a holiday, leaving me with a sore throat, a squeaky whine and hoarse whisper in its place. I had to go to Sydenham DIY today to pick up some drain-unblocking equipment (the duties of [...]

Tea
Just drinking a cup now. Had a cup of milky nonsense at our friends Jo & Laurence’s place. Laurence doesn’t drink much tea… he serves a fine cold beer, mind you. They’ve just had a lovely wee girl - it was strange holding a tiny baby in my arms, as Luka is now a powerhouse [...]

Saturday morning with baby Luka. He’s so mobile now its scary, and with his new wee teeth has a very simple checklist of things to do with everything he comes across:

Can I eat it?
Can I rip it?
Can I climb up it?

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If the answer to all three is “No” then he moves on to something else. [...]

Just back from a weekend and a bit more in Bangor, the town where I first snogged a girl, drank a bottle of cider, and jumped naked into the sea. Not all at the same time, I hasten to add, though thinking about it that would have been fun. The main purpose of the visit [...]

I went out to water the plants this-morning. There is a big old rosemary bush at the back of the garden, and as I was watering it, I noticed something red peeping out from the leaves. It was a perfect scarlet rose - just one that had grown about 3 feet of stem to reach [...]

London gridlock. There’s nothing quite like it to ruin your day. Travel should be transparent - a bland tunnel through which to pass on the way to brighter things - and I’m pretty sure it used to be like that, but time have changed and travelling from A to B has become a thing of [...]

I have become the classic blogger… the one who just can’t keep their mouth shut. But ultimately there’s just so much to talk about, to listen to. I’m going to use a blogging tool called WordPress, which I’m only just learning to use… my theory that content is king and no-one really cares about design [...]