Archives for the 'geographic' Category
cold and slanty
Saturday, January 29th, 2005
i’ve never seen ice like they did at Lake Geneva on wednesday: there’s plenty more..
a frosty welcome
Sunday, December 26th, 2004
today I took a seasonal walk and took some pictures (not using my camera). ps don’t ask what the frozen brown blob is on top of a green post, because i don’t know. it made a nice photo though.
a new home?
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
i might move to Bettsville
coming soon.. the megachallenge
Saturday, October 9th, 2004
This time next week I will have begun the megaexcurtion, the megachallenge. By this point I will have rendez-vous’d with Sarah, my accomplice, at the Greenline Coach Station in London, terminus of all megabus journeys. We will each individually arrive from our respective origins, and from there we will continue north on a megabus, taking [...]
free floating bicycles
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
after a couple of e-mails, i have learnt that both trans manche ferries and hoverspeed will allow me to take my bike (and anyone else and their bikes, in fact) for free as a footpassenger on the newhaven – dieppe route. the problem with hoverspeed is they finish for this year on sunday, but trans [...]
bungees, sheep and compote
Monday, September 6th, 2004
what a lovely trip to the lake district this weekend. highlights: the lady in the ‘shop’ on the Virgin train to Penrith announced she wasn’t willing to sell hot drinks because the train was too busy – I like this h&s attitude we saw the 1 tonne car pull we made a compote of blackberries [...]
stop what you’re doing
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004
If I haven’t already put this into your memory, then listen. don’t say I didn’t warn you. It’s a date for your diary, albeit a vague one. Summer 2005, NVA presents the follow-up to their legendary 2000 ‘The Path’, a night-time walking AV environmental animation through the countryside of Perthsire. This time, ‘The Storr Project’, [...]
I’m on the (multi)map
Sunday, August 15th, 2004
that’s me with the little 1. yes, multimap now has a section for blogs. and that’s why i’ve got the nice little multimap icon in my links section. you can be listed on multimap too by putting a link to multimap on your blog, as per my link, but with the long/lat/blog name changed, obviously. [...]
lost the pub?
Sunday, August 8th, 2004
The BBC report that a pub has been ‘lost’. What does that mean? Well, it was dismantled in the 1970s in order to build a road, on the condition that it would be rebuilt elsewhere. Unfortunately, the pieces of the pub have now been lost.
st neots bug infestation
Sunday, August 1st, 2004
This weekend I found myself in St. Neots for the wedding of Sarah‘s brother Tim. Today we had to catch the train back from St. Neots to London, upon arrival at the station I decided it was crap, there were no station staff, no platform information and no train running information. The only information was [...]