My house was built with a room in the loft. On either side of the room there's a low wall (dwarf wall is the technical term). This forms voids with triangular cross-section that I've filled with insulation.

The voids are ventilated with air from outside, so I also sealed the …

I like to spot instances of syllepsis.

A TV ad on at the moment for the health insurance company Bupa says:

She felt fine, then she felt a lump, but she didn't feel alone.

In Kirsty MacColl's New England she sings:

I put you on a pedestal, you put me …

I feel physically weighed down by a sense of nostalgia after watching Breakfast Club. It's the first time I've seen it, but the clothes, the music and the atmosphere brought back my memories of the eighties. I was 10 in 1981.

I've got to go swimming now, but I'll tell …

I listened to William Hague on the Today programme yesterday, being questioned by John Humphries on the alleged extra-judicial killing by Israel of the Hamas official in Dubai. Hague said he condemned all extra-judicial killings. Humphries asked if that meant that he condemned the extra-judicial killings by the USA carried …

On New Year's Eve we lit a sky lantern...

...and took it outside to be released.

It floated up into the air..

...and got stuck in a tree!

Roller disco fever hit Bath Pavilion last week.

Me concentrating hard:

Julia (left) who organized our group of me, Andrew and Laura (right)

Here we take part in a ritual to honour the gods of roller disco.

Trust me, your new one sucks more badness!

I like this profile! Especially the parts about quirky lodgers, fantastic nephews, and selling your car because of climate change. Lol@ your new one :p

I think I found your blog initially because we have some similar interests in literature - The Master and Margarita is my all time favorite book …

It's come to my attention that my profile text on blogger sucks bad. I've replaced it now, but for posterity's sake, here it is:

I like mowing the grass, reading and computer programming. OMG, this is sounding bad! I rent the rooms in my house out to quirky lodgers. I …

Good point about Twelve Angry Men. In fact, most police dramas are about the due process of law. Maybe I should have said *many* films only work because there's no effective state in their world (or people just fail to call the police).