Posted in charity, cliques, enmity, environment, friends, garden, here, lies, location, loyalty, near, society, understanding on April 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
Our garden share has fallen through, unfortunately. The circumstances are quite complicated to relate, but a précis would go something like this. Our sharer—the elderly woman with a garden—turned out to be simultaneously unwilling to keep in touch and also very demanding, a headily passive-aggressive mix. Last time we spoke a few weeks ago everyting [...]
Posted in art, climate, cliques, commerce, consumption, environment, local_independents, location, manufacture, music, near, recycling, retailers, society on April 19th, 2010 No Comments »
I very gladly took part in Record Store Day this year. Witney might not have much, but it does have one of the very few independent record shops in Oxfordshire, and a real gem at that: Rapture Entertainment. The previous time we lived out here I popped in almost every Saturday: it was a fantastic [...]
Posted in cars, cliques, crime, cycle_accessories, cycles, enmity, opinion, people, rants, responsibility, safety, society, transport on April 10th, 2010 4 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before how much I love my yellow cycling jacket, but seasons change and eventually it becomes time to put away clothes better suited for the wet. The sun has started to show a more regular appearance, and I have a dowdier pacamac which I can stash in my panniers for the times when [...]
Posted in body, commerce, consumers, discomfort, drink, opinion, organisations, person, politics, rants, society on April 1st, 2010 2 Comments »
Teabags with tags are a pain in the arse. I mean, the idea seems sound—a heat-resistant paper handle to lift out a nearly boiling teabag—and probably did have a function before the invention of the spoon. These days, though, a tag is largely redundant unless you’re the sort of person who finds their experience of [...]
