Reading The Count of Monte Cristo Last year, I planned to read more and failed miserably. I used to read a lot and the last few years it's tailed off a bit so this year, I wanted to try
Personal Re-thinking my podcast habit I'd like to start by stating this is a very personal revelation. You're probably going to read this and think "Duh, you've only just got here?" so don't say I didn't warn you.
Personal Couch to 5K: about half way Since we found out we were having a baby, fitness kind of fell of the radar a bit. When the baby came a long and we were sleep deprived zombies, doing exercise wasn't
Personal Back to blogging It's been a while since I last tried to define what this blog is about. Going back through the archives, it's moved around in it's focus as my own focus and interests have
Self-improvement Challenge for August I'm very happy with the progress I've made in the last year, going from reading next to nothing at all to reading something, be it articles or part of a book, every day.
Self-improvement Making some changes Back in December I wrote a resolution blog post with some intentions for the year. So far they've not really come to fruition aside from learning a little more French than I thought
Personal Living the good life Some friends has kindly allowed Lu and I to use a patch of their land to grow some veggies. We've been wanting to do so for a while but our garden isn't really
Personal Leaving DC It's been a fun 9 months working for Digital Consortium (DC) but as of today I am leaving the team. To psuedo-quote The Godfather, I've been made an offer I couldn't refuse. I've
Personal Final day Our final day in Paris and we had nothing planned other than a river tour. We headed out of the hotel around 11 and made our way to Pont de l'Alma where the
Personal Headstones, scammers and artists By some amazing gift of foresight, our plans for Thursday involved less amounts of strenuous walking. We left the hotel between 10 and 11, heading towards the East end of Paris where Père
Personal Wet Wednesday Yesterday morning started much like the previous day. We got up, got ready and went for breakfast then headed out for the day. First on our list was the Louvre. We first tried
Personal Le deuxieme jour We're just about done with day two. Right now we're relaxing for a while before we go out to get some sushi from up the street. Before we do I'm going to write
Personal First day in Paris It's 8:24 local time here in Paris and I've just woken up. I'm pretty much sore everywhere after our afternoon walking around but just wanted to jot a few things here, mainly
Photography Honeymoon begins First leg of the honeymoon sees us heading to Kent to stay with Luisa's Mum for a few days then Monday morning we'll be heading to St. Pancras, then Paris!
Personal Ready for Paris We've pretty much packed all our stuff, save a few final items. We've got our tickets, passports and all that jazz and now... we have a travel journal. I figured this is our
Health & Fitness Dry 2012 I'm not much of a drinker these days. I sometimes have a few pints on a Friday and occasionally go on a night out but despite having a laugh going out drinking with
Self-improvement Resolutions for 2012 I very rarely write posts involving New Years resolutions because I never really head into a new year with any in mind. I had a few for 2011 but some fell by the
Photography Wedding day plus one The day after our wedding we had some family and friends at our house to carry on the celebration with some food and drink. I took many shots of guests but want to
Web Fleeing the nest Back in 2003, I knew next to nothing about the web except where to find movie trailers and do research for the occasional essay at college. I knew a lot about sinking beer
Web Epic Fail Okay, so Epic Fail is a rather over zealous title but it's how I feel about my lame attempt at Ideas of March. I've been bubbling with ideas and things to write about
Personal Doing mo' for charity It's that time of year, the days get shorter, the Northern Hemisphere is generally darker and a lot colder, Christmas starts to show it's weary head in shops and on telly and of
