And while I've got the camera out…

Ventura. Happy birthday Mum! The view from my motel room. A small hedge separates the carpark from a multi-lane road, busy with traffic (all going the same direction – right must lead towards work for everyone). That’s not the freeway, though – that lies beyond, a concrete monster towering over the road, I don’t know…

I really should make a list of what I want to mention in my diary before I write the entry, because I pressed the button and then remembered a couple of notable catches. One is A History of the United States: Volume Two: The Growth of the USA by RB Nye and JE Morpurgo, a…

Well, Christmas is over for another year. We had a pleasant Christmas – not a lot of presents (well, apart from the major present of a new computer which we bought ourselves, but we’ve had that for a few weeks now, so the novelty is wearing off), but we had a lovely day mostly just…

It being a Friday night, and neither of us feeling much like cooking dinner, we were lazy tonight and rang for a pizza. When the delivery guy arrived, he took the pizza box out of his thermal bag thingy, went to hand it to me, and then paused with a puzzled look on his face….

We’ve discovered a great new internet game, called Geodashing. It’s a bit like Geocaching, in that you follow gps coordinates to obscure places, but there’s no cache. Geodashing is all about the journey. And a new GPS game was all the excuse lytteltonwitch, rarsberry and I needed for an expedition. We checked out the 40…

I’ve been feeling (understandably) pretty flat for the past week, and have been having a lot of trouble motivating myself to do anything (other than play solitaire or stare mindlessly at the TV). So after a self-indulgently lazy day yesterday failed to improve my mood at all, I decided it was time to force myself…