Russell Davies

and we're back

Happy New Year everyone. Here's to lots of resolutions and energy. Which in my case you will see as a series of half-baked new ideas which will fizzle out by February. I love New Years but I hate Februarys.

a very merry christmas to all our readers

I'm going offline for a week or so, so there'll be no new posts or comments from me for a while.

Except maybe some pictures from my phone.

Can I just say how honoured, surprised and delighted I am that anyone reads this rubbish, and that I really hope you all have very Happy Holidays - and that I'll be trying my best to think of newly entertaining and stimulating rubbish for the new year.

cheers

running out of steam

The recent Typepad outages coincided with everyone in our house getting a bad cold, both of which have destroyed my good intentions to do a lot of useful blogging in the last few days, especially to post all the entries for the last 'School Of The Web' stuff. But to be honest, my head aches, my nose is sore and I've run a little bit out of steam.

So, I apologise for the delay and I'll try and get them up in the next couple of days.

festive belgium

more hotel TV

I haven't done this for a while. Not been anywhere new. All the channels on the TV at the Hotel 't Sandt, Antwerp.

it's the simple things

Very middle-aged of me I know, but I spent quite a lot of the weekend gazing at these two things:

fire and water movie (About 2.8MB)

the manliest shopping list ever

I wish I needed two different sorts of chisel. (Scutch and bolster)

fun with light sabres

Arthur and I were mucking about with his double-ended, Darth Maul-type light-sabre - taking pictures in the dark. We liked some of the patterns.

warming cockles

A brass quartet has started doing carols and stuff on Carnaby Street. (Ideally I'd have voted for another cornet and a tenor horn instead of the saxes but never mind). The sound of it is so warming and lovely. The sound wafts around the area and makes you feel all Christmassy and glowing.

Christmas carols and brass brands - the Victorians may have been wretched hypocrites but they invented some good material for nostalgia.

blimey

Wow. I installed the statcounter thing a few months back, and promptly forgot about it. I just now discovered that November was my biggest month ever. 38,740 pageloads and 21,856 unique visitors. That just astonishes me. I always think of numbers in the 10s of thousands in terms of the capacity of the City Ground. Which means I'm almost getting the equivalent of a respectable home attendance visiting the site. Coincidentally, Harper Collins have printed about 20,000 copies of the book, so that figures looms large with me at the moment.