Archive for October, 2005

Bill Hicks, bad accents, and Birmingham

Monday, October 24th, 2005

I’ve been listening to copies of Bill Hicks routines that my other half kindly burned for me (sorry Bill, hope you’ll forgive me, wherever you are) in the car to and fro work - breaks up the monotony of the radio, and hey, I need to laugh on my way to work - don’t we […]

Bad ways to occupy yourself on Tuesday evenings

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

On Mondays and Wednesday evenings I practice Tae Kwon Do, on Thursdays I sometimes play squash, Friday nights and the weekends I’m normally out socialising and/or seeing my boyfriend.
Which leaves Tuesday evenings. I sometimes try and catch up chores/continue updating my website/applying for jobs/read some of the many books I’m always buying because I’m […]

Chips from the chippy

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Just had a gorgeous bag of chips from the chippy, but as I munched my way through them, I came to the chips that had been underneath and so had missed the expertly applied deluge of salt and vinegar that the girl (who looked about 10) in the chippy had put on me chips.
I put […]

Sounds like Stoke-on-Trent

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Have you ever found that where you listen to an album for the first time strongly affects your memory of it years later when you listen to it? Like a geographical memory is imprinted onto your brain, to be brought back to your memory again whenever you listen back to the album?
I get this […]

Goji berries and Yacon tuber

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

I went to the Mind Body Spirit Northern Festival at Manchester’s G-Mex on Saturday. I had a wander around and found a stall run by a company called Creative Nature who sell herbs, teas, wheatgrass, incense and superfoods. And I am SO glad I went to their stall, otherwise I would still be […]