Asides

hoping the sky doesn’t fall in!

By billn on April 19, 2010 #asides#site updates

In the next few days the whole of this site will be moving to another server. I’m quite sure that this is a tried and tested process and that nothing can go wrong. That said, this is my last entry until all is done – 2 days, 3 days or the sky falling in – we will see.

Signing off – hopefully for a short time….

a break from the winter…

By billn on March 18, 2010 #asides

It was clearly the first day of Spring today, maybe not according to the calendar but according to the warmth and for the first time this year the smell of tree blossom – today it is then!!!

Maybe during my lunchtime run I was smelling the blossom a little too much – the result, a broken bone in my hand – you hit the ground pretty fast when you trip, particularly if you’re running. Winded, with (now) nicely developing bruises to the knee. elbow and shoulder, I suppose I should be happy; happy that I didn’t end up one metre to the left – in the Rhein.

It seems, according to the ‘impressed’ doctor that I have a very unusual fracture that will probably need surgery – he was sad that his colleague wasn’t around to take a look. I hope that won’t interfere with my 4 days in Burgundy next week! Anyway my (3 or 4 fingered) typing is far from disadvantaged, I can’t say the same for my mouse-skills though – oh-well!

Anyway, I plan to celebrate my first official broken bone (well there was the skiing incident in 1981, but a nose is only cartilage right(?)), together with the first day of Spring with a bottle of Armand Rousseau’s 97 Clos de la Roche 🙂

smudged spectacle(s)

By billn on March 15, 2010 #asides

I tuned in to watch the ‘spectacle’ of Formula 1 yesterday. Actually, it turned out to be the spectacle of ‘racers’ saving their tyres i.e. not driving too close to car in front! As big an F1 fan as I am, what a waste of 2 hours only to see people following each other, but not too close…
(if I hadn’t been out from bed for only a couple of hours it might have been enough to drive me to drink)

p.ox denial…

By billn on March 07, 2010 #asides#p.ox

Producers in denial as blight leaves some French white wines ‘almost undrinkable’

Hardly a major exposé, but the generalist wine-writing cliques are slowly catching-on

tim atkin and bras…

By billn on March 05, 2010 #asides#other sites

Happy as Tim AtkinWell I expect that I have a unique subject title in the internet world – today at least…

Maybe you will recall that I bemoaned the ‘loss’ of Tim Atkin (he of the broad grin) to ‘newspaper’ (everything is anyway on the internet) writing. Well he got a new job pretty quickly with ‘The Times’. His first article is online now.

The Times in not quite the high-brow pillar of society it once was – or maybe it is, it’s just a ‘different’ society! Note the important news-gathering link that questions in detail whether Carla Bruni should have worn a bra or not. Looking at the supplied picture, it seems that everything was in order!

Have a nice weekend 😉

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