Archive for April, 2005

Il Papa

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Being timely I thought I should blog about our new Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany (78.) Our new Pope is a traditionalist and a Catholic conservative. We shall not see any change in the Church’s stance on morality, abortion or ordination of women from this scholarly man. I shall [...]

Focus

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

I’m very nearly there with the new website, just adding a photoblog to it. Tomorrow is my big work deadline so I shall hopefully have more free time to finish photography related stuff. I’ve changed my blog slightly as I am focusing now on travel and stories therein. I feel I have lost my way [...]

Bullet Points

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

* My home connection to the server is out tonight – I have a night off, go me. * I was going to write about the joy of suburbs, give me a day or two and I might. * Bubb and I are going to ‘make neutral’ the carbon our holiday flights generate this year. [...]

Happy end to the weekend

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Cooking your own Rhubarb and Blackerry crumble, watching the red juices bubble through the golden sticky crumble, then dousing in hot homemade vanilla custard. Then eating it, slowly.

Curse of Conscientiousness

Friday, April 8th, 2005

I want to write something funny, or witty or amazingly insightful but I feel like a dried up old lady. Why is it that we care about our jobs? Why is it that we care if it is well done? Why do we care if we do not get things from others that will enable [...]