Some time ago, while visiting Matt in Oxford, we came back from his PhD celebrations and sat in his kitchen for a bit. One of his housemates was there and talked about Charles Dickens. I opined that Dickens was sentimental, melodramatic and at times lurid. She recommended Anthony Trollope. I …

You're welcome to them!

You throwing those maps out??? I think I'll take them off your hands, or at least some of them, have to check my collection.

Bill

My first mobile phone

My gratitude to my brother for giving me this phone is so great that it is beyond words. I was living in a tent at the time, and the phone let me keep in touch. It could store a maximum of 10 texts! Unfortunately it's one …

This is a stack of books before being taken to the charity shop round the corner. It's not that these are bad books. Far from it. I remember reading Genius at Uni. Inspiring. The thing is that in the new house there's not much room, so things just have to …

T-shirt that I wore for my brother's stag-weekend football match

Venerable old jumper

The last thing my mum bought for me. I didn't throw this one out.

Good times. Easy to say 'free palestine' under a duvet with baileys...

Good luck with that! I'm sure Wiltshire will be missing your emails, so next time they send me something in a proprietory format...

I've only just moved to Bath, and I'm already being an annoying free software weirdo! Here's my email to Bath & North East Somerset Council:

Hi, please find attached my Direct Debit form for my Council Tax.

I noticed that the form was in the MS-Word format. Unfortunately this is a …

This the first evening that I moved in. Helen and Toby were staying with me for a couple of days. We watched an episode of House and had some Bailey's. It was really cold, and I hadn't worked out the heating properly, so we were bundled up in blankets and …