Don’t Panic! This post isn’t about me. Apart from some annoyingly consistent gladius elbow (like tennis elbow, but with less balls and more metal) I am all hunky dory. This post is about something I started a few years ago, which was a few years after the fact of it happening. No teddy bears were […]
Garage Art
Deep in the back streets of Cambridge there is a group of Council owned garages that regularly get graffitied, repainted, graffitied, repainted, and so on. I recently spoke to a group who were tasked with repainting all the doors white, and it turns out that they only paint the ones people have complained about. So […]
So Long, Farewell …
This post has a back story. Is’s not too long, only a few years. But I’m afraid this is the third and final chapter of a fun yet unfulfilled website. Part 1: Little Gifts Part 2: Crash and Burn: the death of idea #173… And there I was: I’d tweaked the layout, added more artists and […]
Crash and Burn: the death of idea #173…
… was the name I created for this post when I saved the draft version 6 months ago. That is 18 months after I created this post about a local gifts website I was making. After a year of occasionally dipping into the inner workings of WordPress (well when I say inner workings, I mean […]
Research for the Tea and Lego Challenge.
Today’s research for the upcoming challenge was to force myself to be creative. I’m pretty sure if you sat someone down and said “be creative or the poodle gets it” you wouldn’t get very far with most people (especially if hey don’t own a poodle). Instead, I gave myself the time limit of 20 minutes, […]
The Tea and Lego Challenge.
I have come to realise that there are two great pleasures in my life that need developing. 1. Enjoying something that has no other purpose than to be enjoyed. For example, Tea. I don’t drink green and white tea so much because of the crazy amount of health benefits, but because I really enjoy the […]
Tea Tasting – The Plan
I found a website (randomly) called Wild Tea Qi a few months a go, and after seeing the name and the look of the site I knew I’d be buying tea from them. Having looked at their wide variety of teas, I eventually ordered some samples of their various green and white teas. Up until […]
Little Gifts
Before Christmas I decided that this year everyone would get a locally created present, preferably made by one of my friends. I knew that I have a few friends who create and sell their own work as a living and as a hobby, so thought it would be easy. Step 1: create FB status asking everyone who […]
There are only two main issues in the world …
I was watching a talk by Tai Chi Master Bruce Frantzis which finished with the idea of things being ‘difficult’. “Daoists have a view about there being two issues in the world: Is it doable, or not? If it’s doable, never mind if it’s easy or hard. If it’s not doable, don’t care if it’s […]