It's good when people recommend books, because you get to read something that you wouldn't otherwise have read. So it was with Girl With A Pearl Earring. This is a historical coming-of-age story, that carefully describes a young woman's thoughts and emotions as she is employed in the Vermeer household …

It was good to see Tom and Penny at the weekend. Here's Tom at the Green Park Brasserie:

I'm moving desks tomorrow at work, and thought I'd clear some stuff out. Louisa at work showed us how to make watercress heads, where the cress is the hair. This is my effort. When I took the photo, the cress had died off from neglect! The pipe cleaner is a …

This was a great school project on the Riflemen Of The American Civil War. I originally wanted to do it all in pictures, a graphic novel, but probably a bit too novel. Thanks to my parents for encouraging me though!

Human memory is a great thing, but it does have …

You're probably right, but it's gone now.

Now this is something you should keep and display. You have the perfect windowsill for it.

I received a junk mail letter from Sky, encouraging me to sign up. That was odd, since I'd signed up to the Mailing Preference Service. Not wanting to complain to the MPS straight away I rang Sky up to give them a chance to remove me from the mailing list …

This is a bowl that I made at school by putting clay over a football. I think it looks really good. Over the years it's been on display on the window sill and occasionally bits were chipped off. But they were glued on, and that was brilliant of my parents …

Here's the lid of the box I had to tackle. It says Physics 1990-91:

It was full of bundles of paper, each bundle representing a subject and past exam papers that we had to do.

Ah yes, Dr Somerford. He was my tutor in my first year. Nice bloke. He …

Taken on 10th August 2012.