hēg denu
The old english words from which my name is derived, hēg 'hay' + denu 'valley'.-
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More Photos
I sneakily uploaded the second set of photos from Christmas last week, but didn’t post them. So here they are now: Christmas in Granada (part 2).
Photos from Christmas
It’s been kind of hectic this year, I can’t remember exactly what’s been going on, but it’s passing by rapidly. So it’s the last day of January and I’ve finally got the first batch of photos up from my Christmas … Continue reading
Call of the shadows
When I was about eight or nine years old I got (from where I don’t remember) a shareware copy of a game called Raptor: Call of the Shadows. In those days it was quite common for a game to have … Continue reading
Addicted
I tend to drink a fair amount of coffee, not as much as when I lived in the UK, but three or four espressos a day is fairy normal. I used to try and balance what’s most likely an addiction … Continue reading
It’s Nice That (2010)
Once again it’s time for my incredibly presumptuous self-inflicted It’s Nice That yearly review. I’m cutting it a little fine this year, with a little less than three hours to go before the end of the year, but here we … Continue reading
Life’s good…
I found a link to an episode of Rapnews, an alternative news programme where the news is rapped (as in hip hop) by a number of impersonated people. The link was in an article on The Age about how Julian … Continue reading
Cirque du Soleil: Varekai
On Tuesday night Andrea and I went to see the Cirque du Soleil show that’s in Barcelona at the moment, Varekai. Apart from a free circus show at an ocupa that I saw at the beginning of the year, I … Continue reading
Alphabattle: U
So, after 40 weeks of Alphabattle, I’ve finally got around to joining in, just in time for U. I completed my entry in typically geeky style You can see all of Bruce’s entries on his Alphabattle page, over on Moustache.
The family sites
So in addition to me changing my site to run on WordPress, both Thea and Bruce got WordPress blogs up and running while I was in Australia. I was going to post about this sooner, but I’ve been waiting for … Continue reading
Real life and fiction
This afternoon I had almost exactly the opposite of this comic happen to me.