Eeyore’s Gloomy Place

Was getting my hair cut this morning, and reminiscing a bit.
It’s just under 11 years (probably next weekend, but it was around the start of July) since I first moved into Beeston. As you come up Beeston Road from the Hill, you used to pass a carpet / interior furnishings shop, fish & chip shop, [...]

Remarkably, after two years, my random musing have prompted links from other blogs!
However (there’s always a ‘however’), most of thm seem to be due to Wendy Cope, and her recent Radio 4 interview, in which she mentions her dislike of seeing her poetry on the Internet.
This is a bit of a bugger. And, of course, [...]

Ah, Mika. Wierd-looking bloke, but then, aren’t we all?
Happy Ending didn’t do as well as it should have - it’s a beautiful song, and I really like the way it builds up, layer by layer.

After a lot of work, and several months later than I’d wanted, the new Metro web site is out.
Even better, my successor as ‘web guru’ at Metro has been appointed!
Unfortunately, they can’t start until August, which means I’ll have to work on the LTP site in the meantime, and sort out any issues with the new [...]

Mostly, I’ve refrained from discussion of Leeds United this season; partly because I didn’t want to jinx ourchances of going up, but partly also because I’ve been really busy with the Ladies team, and there’s only so much football I want in my head at any one time!
So ‘footballed-out’ am I that I passed my [...]