Posted in commerce, consumers, consumption, cotswolds, environment, location, meta, past, reuse, society, time on January 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Two months ago, I said:
Witney’s branch of Cargo closed recently. Fair enough, I thought, but it did so only to reopen in a far bigger store space (where New Look used to be). I give it six months….
Now? FALCO: Witney Cargo. We walked past its whitewashed windows earlier today. Apparently it’s going to turn into [...]
Posted in body, buildings, fatigue, location, meta, money, near, occupation, ownership, person, society on May 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Buying a house is simultaneously dull and fascinating: dulled by the sheer weight of process and documentation you have to wade through; but enlivened by the way that it impinges on faintly esoteric matters of property law and rightful ownership, and provides you with the sort of in-depth knowledge of where you’re going to live [...]
Expect the current quiet on this blog to continue for some time. K. and I are currently in the process of starting the process of processing the eventual process of buying a house. Our most recent discovery is that ringing round solicitors for a quote is somehow more soul-destroying than ringing round estate agents: at [...]
Posted in business, cliques, entertainment, interviews, made_our_own_fun, media, occupation, opinion, radio, society, vanity on January 20th, 2009 5 Comments »
Tomorrow, at 12.30pm, I finally receive the fame and respect that I’ve known all along I deserve. That’s right: a five-minute slot on local radio. Nobody could claim I don’t deserve that. It’s to advertise the conference I’m organizing in the evening, which is both
I’ve often been told I have the perfect face for [...]
Posted in art, employment, literature, media, occupation, printing, publishing, short_stories, vanity, writing on December 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Ah. I need to be able to print two small PDFs, fairly soonish. They’d need to be duplex, and one of them needs to be printed two pages to a side. Anyone any thoughts on where to do this in Oxford(-shire, at a push)? They’d have to be fairly clued up, whoever they are: I [...]
Posted in art, entertainment, language, literature, made_our_own_fun, meta, music, oulipo, short_stories, vanity on November 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Exercises in Song 2008 starts on Monday 1 December: that’s in two days’ time!. If you’re interested in literary experiments, silly drinking songs and the Oulipo school of verbal experimentation—and who isn’t, eh, hahaha?—then there’s more information on the Quiet little Lies site. You can also order a free print copy of all twenty-five Exercises [...]
Posted in art, christmas_2008, language, literature, media, meta, music, nu-media, occupation, oulipo, publishing, seasons, short_stories, time, truth, understanding, vanity, websites, writing on November 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
For those of you not paying much attention (I don’t blame you), Quiet little Lies has had a new revamp, quieter but more fundamental than before. Expect new content, more often. There’s even a LiveJournal syndication for those who fancy it.
We’re also offering a third free booklet of fiction to your door in time for [...]
A week passes and still I’m unwell. I think my cold has almost seamlessly segued into general hayfever, which I never get (except when I do). My worry is that it’ll pass, with variations, from its current melodic snufflings and gurglings to a full-blown ear infection: a few years ago those were the bane of [...]
Posted in meta, readers on May 11th, 2008 No Comments »
We’ve returned from our holiday in Spain, visiting my mother for her 60th. Returned, caught up on sleep, been to another birthday party, recovered from our hangovers and bought enough food that we won’t expire before Abel & Cole provide us with a box of their finest later this week.
More to come; I just have [...]
Tradition has it that at this time of the year the commentator or bloviator should, in place of new ideas, provide a retrospective on the events of the past twelve months. The writer or broadcaster should provide references to the content they themselves have produced throughout the year. This demonstrates in retrospect their ability to [...]
