I’ve just been reading the Wikipedia article about Arthur C. Clarke, because I wanted to look something up, and I found some things I did not know, including the fact that he was held in such high esteem in Sri…
Sam
Used the name “Sam” for the first time today. I bought something online from Marks & Spencer and I went to collect it today. You enter your deets at a terminal and then wait for a member of staff…
Hi, I am Samantha
Hey folks. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought for years, and I really hate my name. Joanne, I mean. I really don’t like it and never have. And I originally chose it! LOL Anyway, I’ve been thinking on…
William Moulton Marston; Wonder Man
I watched a superb documentary on Sky recently, called “Secret History of Comics: The Truth About Wonder Woman” It was about American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), who invented the lie detector. But, also, a…
State of flux
Just to let you know that recent changes to WordPress have broken the very old theme that I have been using for years and which has been abandoned by its author(s) and hence has not been updated to continue to…
Self-Portraiture
I thought I’d make a post about the kind of camera equipment I use to take my self portraits, since the topic came up in the comments section on one of my recent Flickr pics.
Bargain Hunting
On Tuesday I popped over to Epsom Downs Racecourse for an Antiques and Collectors fair. The weather was sunny, but cold and windy, and there weren’t a lot of outside stalls. But upon getting indoors I immediately saw that the…
Out and about
I’ve not been posting much lately. Not because I haven’t been doing much but because I’ve just been a little lazy with posting. No one thing has been remarkable enough to write a blog post about. Plus, I’m not convinced…
Welcome back!
A while back I migrated from wordpress.com to self-hosted WordPress (you can read about it here). At the time I thought that the migration process would bring all my followers across, but it didn’t. Well, today I found an option…
Cookery: The Juicy Lucy
I’m not really much of a cook, and this is the first time I have blogged about cooking. But I thought I would share an experiment that I did in creating a Juicy Lucy burger. I was watching Man vs…