Blogadoon http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html A bugger's blog en-us Blogadoon http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/graphics/blogadoon.jpg http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html Blogadoon page header Wednesday 7th November http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Wednesday2 Thames Festival fireworks seen from Blackfriars Bridge, looking west, 16th September 2007, 9:00pm

Blackfriars Bridge, Summer 2007

]]> Tuesday 6th November http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Tuesday2 My thanks to all of my friends who sent emails (however brief) to celebrate my birthday and especial thanks to the half a dozen or so who insisted on marking the occasion by getting blind drunk with me.

Given that we started early, watching Dame Edna at the RVT on Sunday evening, my birthday dawned with me, at Horse Meat, very drunk indeed - and it ended, as far as I recall, with cheap and unsatisfactory sex.

So, if my theory that the events of one's birthday foreshadow the year to come, I think we know what to look forward to: more of the same, ho hum.

]]> Monday 5th November http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Monday2 Thames Festival fireworks seen from Blackfriars Bridge, looking west, 16th September 2007, 9:00pm

Blackfriars Bridge, Summer 2007

]]> Sunday 4th November http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Sunday5 I hope you're enjoying the fireworks.

I have written before, I think, about my ambivalent relationship with seasonal pyrotechnics in the run-up to my birthday.

So you may be a little suprised to find me filling space with fizz-bang-sparkle, especially since these pictures appear to have been taken prior to this year's Guy Fawkes Night.

There's a simple enough explanation...[MORE]

]]> Saturday 3rd November http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Saturday5 Thames Festival fireworks seen from Blackfriars Bridge, looking west, 16th September 2007, 9:00pm

Blackfriars Bridge, Summer 2007

]]> Friday 2nd November http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Friday5 As if it weren't enough to expect me to work from 6:30pm to somewhere around 3am, my employer also insists on a rota that means I can never be sure which of our traditional nine days a fortnight I'm working from one week to the next.

Happily, in this respect at least...[MORE]

]]> Thursday 1st November http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Thursday5 Thames Festival fireworks seen from Blackfriars Bridge, looking west, 16th September 2007, 9:00pm

Blackfriars Bridge, Summer 2007

]]> Wednesday 31st October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Wednesday5 So how much did the recent postal strike affect you?

Not much, I'm guessing: there was a time, especially when I was living in the country, that checking the mat for incoming was a definite moment in my day.

But those days are long gone.

These days my personal news, be it bad or be it good, arrives by email and whatever little truly important posted material there is (mostly bills) flutters down to lie at the foot of my front door amidst a mulch of pizza flyers and estate agents' nonsense...[MORE]

]]> Tuesday 30th October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Tuesday5 Thames Festival fireworks seen from Blackfriars Bridge, looking west, 16th September 2007, 9:00pm

Blackfriars Bridge, Summer 2007

]]> Monday 29th October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Monday5 I admit that I was tickled, in a minor key, on learning that J K Rowling had told a press conference that the benign head of Hogwarts was gay.

I admit that I thought, well, ahah, there's one blog entry taken care of.

I admit that, when I came to consider it further, I couldn't think of single interesting or amusing thing to say...[MORE]

]]> Sunday 28th October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Sunday4 Thames Festival fireworks seen from Blackfriars Bridge, looking west, 16th September 2007, 9:00pm

Blackfriars Bridge, Summer 2007

]]> Saturday 27th October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Saturday4 Wet enough for ya?

I agree. Time to move on: to the dieing embers of the year.

]]> Friday 26th October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#** Thames Festival fireworks seen from Blackfriars Bridge, looking west, 16th September 2007, 9:00pm

Blackfriars Bridge, Summer 2007

]]> Thursday 25th October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Thursday4 In other office-related news: I've finally got my hands on my new photo-pass.

The Good News is that it bears an uncanny resemblance to a familar figure revered around the world for his loquacious sagacity.

The Bad News is: Yoda.

]]> Wednesday 24th October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Wednesday4 English Garden, Battersea Park, looking east, 11th September 2007, 1:30pm

Battersea Park, Summer 2007

]]> Tuesday 23rd October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Tuesday4 Pestered by email from HR...

(And I have to stop, right there, and say that I always expect HR to stand for Human Relations. And I'm always depressed when I remember that we're actually mere Human Resources. Capitalism 101, right there.)

Pestered by email from HR, I ... [more]

]]> Monday 22nd October http://www.iansie.com/nonsense/blog.html#Monday4 English Garden, Battersea Park, looking east, 11th September 2007, 1:30pm

Battersea Park, Summer 2007

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