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 …

I find it difficult to throw things out. This first photo is of a wind-up radio that my parents gave me years ago. It's been broken for ages but I couldn't bring myself to throw it out because it's one of the few things that connects me with my mother …

On 4th Feb I moved in to the new house in Bath. I took some photos as soon as I arrived:

Western end of downstairs main room

Eastern end of downstairs main room

Door to the outside on the right, and door to cupboard on the left

Door to downstairs …

This is how Louisa at work peels a satsuma.