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.

Look closely, I'm on the platform waving. Dave Andrews took this from the aquaduct.

The publisher of Taft 2012 sent me a free review copy. It's the first time that's happened to me. They must have seen other book reviews here on my blog.

I've been boasting to my friends about this literary honour, but now the time has come to actually write the …

I read about persistence hunting a few months ago:

humans likely practiced persistence hunting, chasing a game animal during the heat of the day, making it run faster than it could maintain, tracking and flushing it if it tried to rest, and repeating the process until the animal literally overheated …

This is the box with all my old physics stuff in. A lot of wonderful books that I never properly understood. I wish I could spend some more time understanding it. I wasn't very good at physics, but could understand enough to find it interesting.

Looking back over the folder …

Here's another photo of the skip, taken on 20th of July. I've contacted the BANES Council about it, but they've said they can't do anything about it because it's on private land. I've asked them about planning permission, as it's permanently there. I'll let you know their reply.

Thought it was time to chuck this old thing out. Probably dates back to Roger's day.

When I moved to Bath I tried for ages to get TalkTalk to transfer their broadband to the new house. They were terrible, and just couldn't do it, so I moved to BT, who were excellent. Bill recently asked how much BT costs. I'm with the 10 GB per month …