Plastic Bag Brain. Weekly Music.

Before yoga this evening I asked Rachel what I should work on. “You’re really strong” she said. “Yeah, thanks, running and climbing” I said. “Yeah.. but you’re, erm, just a little bit, well, tight.” Cue massive snorts of laughter when she catches my eye. I need *at least* three blocks. Everyone else needs one – […]

A fond farewell to my carbon belt. Good bye dear bike..

Well, it was a good year, we had good times together… but now a fond farewell: My fabulous bike was stolen from right outside the sports centre door this week. A thief cut my heavy-duty Abus chain lock, presumably in full view of lots of people, during a single hour [1]. Grr. Reparations? The professional […]

Bring you Back online. No really – please dont. Really. Weekly Music.

You know when you know someone who has such a major block that they cant see it themselves? When they would do anything. Use anyone. Or anything, to get back what they want? Bring You Back: Hey Prof: Apart from the ethical and legal issues involved in continuing to stalk your student – there are a […]

Weekly Music: You’re Wondering,

of course, whether I beat the 2 hour mark for my Half Marathon. You’re Wondering? As You Wish: My time was 1:45. And here is the course too, for anyone interested: I enjoyed the 2017 Half more than the 2016 version. Last year (2016) I pushed over the last 5 km. This year’s lack of training […]

A couple of hours in Westminster

My workplace union has been putting effort into representing members on the issue of Brexit. Like asking for the government to guarantee the rights of currently resident EU workers; this sort of thing: guaranteed rights for EU nationals already working in the UK to remain here continued international mobility for scientists and engineers, including for UK […]

Oh. Why you looking at me? Weekly Music.

The Grimes imagery as previous Art Angels vidz. But now bumped up nine levels. Venus Fly: Grimes is extraordinarily beautiful in some of the latex and oil incarnations. The time the care, and (I think) joy, in these re-inventions is immense. The resurrection of the pink rose? Grimes, avenging angel, emerging from the oil at 4:45? […]

Cankerous parsnip + beautiful herb

Not the optimal half marathon preparation (oh god, tomorrow!), but finally, a lovely few hours in the garden today. And, coz I like them, some garden pics from last summer too: The new vegetable beds were fab last summer, but have been subsiding since having been filled. Must be about nine to twelve months […]

Everything She Wants. Weekly Music

So its been a busy few weeks. The last of the Big proposals goes in today. All 150 pages of it. Plus 56 pages for the Not-Quite-So-Big-One. The odds of success are around 1 in 5 for the Big One, and 1 in 12 for for the NQSBO. The plan is now to steer clear […]

Evil Weasel and other recent reads

The Invisible Library and the Masked City I dont have much to say about these. So we will start here. They are the first two of a series by Genevieve Cogman: The Invisible Library and the Masked City. Light holiday reading. Fun. Nice ideas. One could argue they are a little shallow – and not […]

I’m not the boy you wanted? Weekly Music.

I like this track. Not entirely sure what it means – Boy: [Perhaps follow the link if the above doesn’t work? This one’s not youtube.] Somewhat unusually for me, I’m been out quite a lot of evenings in the last couple of weeks. Mostly with the girls rather than boys. And some of them have been […]