Those nice people over at Librivox have included a tribute to Chris in their anniversary podcast, which is available at http://librivox.org/2011/08/09/librivox-community-podcast-116/ There is a short piece about Chris right after the beginning. Note that it includes an extract of him reading William Wilberforce’s speech on abolishing slavery – so if you do listen to […]
My sister has a new Amazon kindle which she was showing me at the weekend. It looked really good, and reminded me that there is a kindle app on Christopher’s iPad, that even has some e-books loaded onto it. I thought it would be worth giving it a go and seeing what it was like […]
It was a year ago today that Christopher died. Well, it was on 7th August, but that was a Saturday last year, so it was yesterday that really hurt the most. Thank you all very much for your cards, thoughts, emails and blog comments – you probably don’t realise how much help you’re being. I […]
In the end I got two different builders to quote for doing the landscaping work on my garden. They came in within 10% of each other which I thought was pretty remarkable, and gives me reasonable confidence that is indeed the “price for the job”. The main difference between the quotes was that one proposed […]
When I was tidying up recently I found a voucher entitling me to money off a ticket at the Malvern cinema. I’ve no idea how long I’ve had it, as I really don’t remember what I tore it out from. But it had no expiry date on it so I reckoned it would still be […]
There is one summer holiday when I was teenager which has gone down in family history as the year that the exhaust pipe fell off the car in the middle of nowhere in France. My parents made a frantic raid on our luggage to find something to tie it back on with until they could […]
I admit that I’m struggling somewhat at the moment. It’s really hard to motivate myself to get out of bed in the morning, even though work is so busy right now. I am just so tired that all I want to do is curl up in bed and stay there. But that’s not an acceptable […]
Work has just gotten crazy this past fortnight. I’m in the middle of a major bid which is taking up a huge amount of everyone’s time and energy, not just mine. On the one hand, that’s a very good thing right now – it gives me something concrete to focus on and keep me busy. […]
I’ve been feeling pretty miserable recently. It’s nearly a year ago that things went from very serious to critical with Christopher, and I’m really not looking forward to the anniversary of his death. So I thought I would attempt to forcibly cheer myself up by going to the allegedly extremely funny spoof murder mystery that’s […]
I got a letter from the local council yesterday, informing me that my application for planning permission for the garden has been granted, with no additional conditions. I now have three years to get the work done – though obviously I’m not expecting it to take nearly that long. Now I “just” have to find […]
