Books I’ve Read 2008 Final Tally

Well, I don’t really think I’ve got time to read any more books this year and I don’t feel like hurrying. So the final two books of 2008 are:
30. Tales Of Beedle The Bard by JK Rowling
31. The Secret Societies Handbook by Michael Bradley
32. Polluto: The Anti-pop Culture Journal – Issue One: Post-natal Depression and [...]

What I got for Christmas

I know this is a fairly juvenile thing to post about for a 37 year old man, but some things never change… and probably won’t.
I’ve already posted about the guitar I’d be getting for Christmas and it was everything I thought it would be. I even tuned it with my handy little electronic tuner. The [...]

Short Book Update

When I put books I’ve read up here, it’s more for my own record, but if you’re interested then you must like books…
29. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Post Slacker, Christmas

I must apologise for the infrequency of my posting. I’d promised to post often and here it is that nearly five days has passed without one. What will my public say.
It’s been a terribly busy week with plenty of Christmas-related activities going on at work. Every year they serve up a Christmas dinner [...]

Ice Cream Update

Chestnutty disaster! I didn’t have an actual icecream maker recipe, so I tried to adapt a normal ice cream recipe and luckily I only ended up with an sweet eggy syrup to put in the bin. The actual chestnut puree was not, thank goodness, involved in the disaster and I was able to go on [...]

Very Busy with Christmas

We’re buying gifts and decorating and like. So, this is just a note to note a couple of  books that I’ve read.
27. Night Of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont
28. The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Ice Cream, The Making Of

My parents had given me a gift certificate at Amazon for Christmas and with most of it I got a guitar starter pack and a couple of books to guide me through learning to play on it. However, with that spent I had a little bit of money, which I didn’t know what to do [...]

Christmas Market

Every year without fail the family and I go to our local Christmas Market.  I don’t mean to be a Market-Snob, but the last few years the Market here has become more like a lowercase market. A place where merchants flog their tat; normal socks, handbags, purses, and other stuff that you wouldn’t give as [...]

Christmas Movies

I’ll have to get this out of the way. I don’t, as a rule like Christmas movies. In fact, most of them I actively loathe. They are mawkish, saccharine, and gaudy appeals to the sugary side of the heart in a time of year when everything seems geared that way. If they were innocent in [...]

Foreign Films

NE and I have been on a bit of a non-English movie kick of late. It all started when my friend P at work loaned me a box set of Guillermo Del Toro’s movies, well three of his movies. I’d already seen Pan’s Labyrinth and while I thought it was great, NE hated the downer [...]