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Continue reading →: Day 1: End of an era – so what comes next?
After coming to the end, yesterday, of the longest freelance booking I’ve ever had (seven and a quarter years to be precise), I had a vague idea that I might blog every day for 30 days. Just to document, y’know, the end of an era and a major change of life. And because…
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Continue reading →: Microadventure #3: Bodyboarding weekend in CornwallTl;dr: unfit middle-aged Brummie woman with lifelong surfing obsession fulfils dream by not standing up on board. The challenge has always been to surf. It’s been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember fuelled by seeing early skateboarding films in the ’70s. Then came movies such as Big Wednesday, The Endless…
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Continue reading →: Harkive – how I listened to music on 19 July 2016
I’ve been meaning to do the annual Harkive project and this year I’ll finally got around to it, albeit a couple of days late. Here is it: I work from home. I generally wait for a bit of editing work to come in that I can do ‘with my eyes shut’, which allows me…
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Continue reading →: Microadventure #2: Nordic walking in the woods at night
‘There’s no snow, you know!’ OK, so walking with ski poles across the pedestrian crossing in suburban Birmingham may draw a few gags but needs must. I want to get fitter and this seemed a perfect way to take my daily 10k step walks up a level even if I did look…
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Continue reading →: Microadventure #1: Alone in Kings Heath park at night
My heart was practically tachycardic as I entered the blackness. They (if they were there) could easily see me nipping off-path and slipping between the large conifers edging the park into the expanse of darkness beyond. I was banking on no one of cruel intention waiting for me there. All I wanted to do was to…
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Continue reading →: So that was 2015!This Christmas break has been a feverish, fog-brained, sinus-filled and jelly-legged two weeks, due to the most fluey of cold viruses (but not the actual flu because when you’ve had the flu, you know!). And so, the Christmas alcohol remains to be drunk, I’ve dropped three lbs and our post-Christmas walking…
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Continue reading →: A collection of spam quotes to touch all the internet people
A while ago I starting collecting some of the best/worst spam quotes being left on my various blogs. I do like the relentless positively testimonials of the spambots. So how great am I? Let’s check my spam filters to find out. 1. Inspiring fondness I have no idea how you do…
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Continue reading →: Before you buy a bunny for Easter…
An Easter message from Bunzilla and Bunminster (and me). 1. Do not buy a bunny this Easter because they look cute and fluffy, or because someone lumped bunny and Easter together like puppy and Christmas. You all know what happens when the festive tinsel comes down. 2. Buns are a…
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Continue reading →: My new trip camera is an iPhone
Recently I sold my DSLR with every intention of replacing it with a new hybrid camera. Instead I’ve been pretty pleased with the output from my iPhone 6 and so, for the first time ever, I took all my trip pix using just a cameraphone. Here are some shots from our honeymoon to Iceland. Many pics…
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Continue reading →: Poster girls, GoPro debut and a sudden Total Eclipse of the HeartSnowselele is the now-traditional Christmas singalong featuring Moselele (“The second best ukulele group in Birmingham”) and a chorus of around 400 drinkers at the Prince of Wales pub in Moseley. I was pleased to find myself and my sis appearing as poster girls for this year’s event (photo by fellow Moselelean, Sarah Aust).
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Fiona Cullinan 