Thursday,
July 29th, 2004
I went into an absurd amount of detail about my tangible birthday gifts from Jeremy, but I haven’t yet mentioned my other traditional birthday present: a Big Meal Out. Last year’s birthday involved a trip to Sevendials, and while it was very,…
Sunday,
July 25th, 2004
The title says it all, really.…
Friday,
July 23rd, 2004
Though I’m extremely fond of it, I don’t tend to eat a lot of German food at home. Traditional German food - like the traditional food of most European countries, I reckon - tends to be a bit more meat-centric, labor-intensive and fat-laden th…
Tuesday,
July 20th, 2004
A busy day in Bologna the Learned.…
Thursday,
July 15th, 2004
If the author of this article in Scientific American is right and the Voynich manuscript is actually a hoax, then, well, that’s a bit of a bummer. At least it would be an interesting hoax - there’s nothing really dull about an elaborate, beaut…
Tuesday,
July 13th, 2004
I’m back from my fantastic and music-filled trip to Ireland. While it was rainy and stormy here in England, Jeremy and I were enjoying astonishingly sunny weather on Ireland’s west coast. We did nothing but take walks through the countryside a…
Friday,
July 2nd, 2004
It’s summer festival season, and I’ve been taking part in the music-making and merry-making that abounds at this time of year. I spent all of last weekend at a music festival, in fact. No, it wasn’t Glastonbury (egads, anything but Glast…