Yesterday I received this email from Yahoo!:

Dear User,

Unfortunately, the time has come to say goodbye to Yahoo! Groups Labs Applications (beta) and Groups Chat. We thank all the users that were a part of this program. We intend to use this learning to enhance Yahoo! Groups further with …

There's a skip permanently placed near my house.

After Bill's comment, I'm making great efforts to get the orientation of the photos right.

Now, I think I made this bag in primary school. In it I kept IOUs from people to whom I had lent money. The one in the bottom right hand corner is an IOU from …

On my way home from breakfast at Green Park Brasserie I saw this TomTom van mapping the area. Presumably like Google streetview.

That reminded me of TomTom's recent attack on Open Source mapping, which was brilliantly debunked by Richard Fairhurst.

Okay, this is another box from the hall. My job will be done when I can enter the downstairs loo. This is a letter about the sale of 5 Belvoir Road.

A nice postcard from Dad.

Started off as a temp at Wessex Water.

Offered a job there.

A pad …

I think I've worked it out now. I can see by the symbols which way it thinks is up. The phone judges 'up' by gravity, so is a bit random when flat.

You still not worked out photo orientation?

Ah, now this was when I was living in a shared house at Alexandra Road. The owners put it up for sale for £125,000. I passed up the opportunity of buying it. Wish I'd bought it. I'd almost most be a millionaire by now!

Postcard from my old school …

I hired a special vacuum cleaner to clean up after the builders had finished at Belvoir Road.

A phone bill from my time at Belvoir Road, just to prove to myself that I lived there.

Ancient model kit of missiles. I remember this from when I was a kid. I …

A label on this said Habitat, which of course doesn't exist any more. Or have they still got one shop open? Anyway, it used to be my desk lamp. I remember it at University, clamped to the desk.

This squash racquet is a lot older. At Dauntsey's there were squash …