Posted by Skytower on Thu January 21, 2010

Apologies to anyone (or possibly everyone) for whom the RSS/Atom feed for this site is stuffed up. I’ve only just noticed myself that it doesn’t appear to be working, and it’s clearly only since the templates were switched, natch.
Can’t find the fault right now, but give me time – I will!

  Sverige

Posted by Skytower on Mon January 18, 2010

Ahhh, tune.
So, what plans are there for 2010, you may not be asking? Well, not many, as usual – I’m not one for saying “I’ll do this, I’ll do that” – but there are a couple of things that I’d like to achieve, certainly over the next few months.
The first, and foremost, is the one [...]

  Sledging

Posted by Skytower on Thu January 14, 2010

Nope, not that sort. Nor the cricketing sort, for once – and given the performance turned out today by the England team, it’s probably best to move on anyway.
Instead, two interesting, if unusual, examples of people’s enjoyment of the recent snow. All I will say is… hasn’t it bloody melted yet? Go away, you evil [...]

  Facelift

Posted by Skytower on

A bit of a facelift to the site: a change of theme, a bit of a lick of paint… and long overdue.
Depending on what time you’re viewing this, I’m either still working on it (with bits coming and going every few minutes, complete with a totally naff header and weird flowery bits), or I’ve run [...]

  Resolute

Posted by Skytower on Mon January 11, 2010

Yeah, yeah, happy new year, and all that guff.
So, 2010 is eleven days old already. Christmas already seems like ages back (thank god), the country has taken on the truest look of winter imaginable (can anyone remember what colour tarmac is?), and the date is yet another binary figure (11/01/10… next one will be 01/10/10, [...]

  So this is Christmas…

Posted by Skytower on Fri December 25, 2009

… and what have we done?
Fuck all so far.
Whatever you’re doing, have an enjoyable one, anyway. The whisky’s open at Chateau Skytower; not sure whether my carriage is on the way yet or not, but it bloody better be, since at this rate, mine won’t be an option.
I’ll leave you with a quote borrowed – [...]

  Blah humbug

Posted by Skytower on Thu December 24, 2009

Ah, Christmas eve.
Well, Christmas at the all-new Chateau Skytower isn’t a great deal different from recent Christmasses – except for the tree being up. Astonishingly.
Yes, it was erected (oo-er missus) to fill a corner (not now) very early on in December – literally two or three days after moving into the new place. It’s probably, [...]

  Back from the dead

Posted by Skytower on Wed December 23, 2009

Aye, it’s been a while and all that crap. Mostly because most of it has indeed been crap… urgh, if that was 2009, you can keep it.
However, it seems to be ending in a very similar state to how it began, which all in all isn’t a bad thing. So, if you take out all [...]

  Dates

Posted by Skytower on Tue February 10, 2009

Well, I’m happy to say that I’ve got quite a few dates for Valentine’s Day this year… and none of them are going to let me down…

(Haw haw, etc…

  Ahhh

Posted by Skytower on Wed February 4, 2009

Ahhh, Shamu…

  F-F-F-F-Friday

Posted by Skytower on Fri January 16, 2009

Blimey, it’s Friday already.
Been a bit of a busier week this week, particularly with rediscovering what a social life is as well as doing the usual work thing. Another convincer that the move-to-Leicester idea is a good one.
Tomorrow, it’s rugby again, so early pints of Guinness will be the order of the day. The getting [...]

  Inverse

Posted by Skytower on Mon January 12, 2009

I wonder how most people’s diets are going?
Well, given that it’s the new year, it is a fair bet that there’s a lot of people, up and down the country, who made it their resolution to lose weight. And I hope it’s going well for you. Is it?
I make no secret of the fact that [...]

  Point-less

Posted by Skytower on Sat January 10, 2009

Back when I was a lad, we’d wait longingly until we were old enough to open a bank account. Then, days later, a small rectangular piece of plastic would arrive, in a security-sealed envelope, through your door. For the sheer hell of it, you’d pay some money into this bank account, just so you could [...]

  Back to back

Posted by Skytower on Thu January 8, 2009

Maybe it’s the recent cold snap (although somehow I doubt it), but my back has been getting gradually worse over the last few days. My legs have been aching as well, but not to the extent that my back is. In fact, my lower back is so bad that I’m struggling to bend over. I’m [...]

  Snoozeathon

Posted by Skytower on Fri January 2, 2009

Ah, the 2nd of January. Perhaps the best day of the “Christmas” period; it’s the day when the back of the silly season is finally seen. Thus, normality ensues and stuff starts returning to how it was.
And, perhaps, for the first time in a few weeks, I’ve managed to stay in bed all day. Getting [...]