Few things improve your attitude towards the work-filled day ahead like a crack on the forehead from a curtain pole. Why do these things always happen to me? I honestly believe that a cliff edge that had been there since the beginning of time and held the weight of hundreds of thousands of hikers who’d [...]
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So, to go back to what I was originally going to say in my previous post: there I was in NYC. It was huge and busy and crazy and wonderful, as I wrote in this post many moons ago. My four days there were among the best days I’ve ever had. But it was still [...]
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Riho has gone away for a few days, and the conversation before he left for the airport led me to tell him about what first planted the idea of becoming a travel writer in my head. Are you sitting comfortably? It’s story time, boys and girls! In my early twenties, newly single, and needing some [...]
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As I have mentioned before, I love books. I have always loved books. When I think about my childhood of back-to-back Enid Blyton books, lightly sprinkled with Roald Dahl, Frank Richards and Colin Dann, I am thankful for parents who loved to read, and whose collections from their own childhoods were passed down to me. [...]
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Tallinn’s trams are great places to encounter all sorts of weird and wonderful characters. For a start, it’s the obvious place to go if you’re homeless and it’s raining. I doubt whether they pay for a ticket, but even if they do, it’s only 9EEK (about 50p) and they can stay on there all day [...]
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Katyboo has been tackling a meme: Think of 20 albums that had such a profound effect on you that they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, [...]
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I’ve never gotten into the whole Twitter fad. I’m reluctant to make grand, superior-sounding statements like that, because something’s bound to happen that results in me not only being utterly obsessed with Twitter, but probably working for them and writing blog posts entitled “How Tweeting Saved My Life” and so on, which would make this [...]
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I’ve never made a huge secret of the fact that I’m not overly fond of Northern Ireland. And yet there are some things about the place that are making me really, really look forward to going back for a week or two in May. Having just spent the past five minutes gazing dreamily at this [...]
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The first rule, says Ben in his best teacher voice, is that there are no rules. The eight of us sprawling around the coffee table look expectantly at him. Everyone knows that when someone says there are no rules, it means that there is further elaboration to follow. You can’t sit down to play a [...]
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There has been a lack of blog posting lately. This is mainly because I have finally got a decent amount of work to be getting on with, and while this means that I haven’t been getting out much (and therefore don’t have anything particularly interesting about which I might blog), I dare not complain. It’s [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
