Posted on 25th June 2009, 6:01pm
F is for Fast Ferrari but also for Falsity
It has been said that the internet is one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, having transformed the way we live our lives from communication to business. It allows us to book train tickets, purchase computers, and communicate with friends and family, all without having to reach across and pick up the phone. It allows spotty teenagers to express their ill-founded opinions, it enables friendless bedroom-bound loners to socialise in multiplayer online games, and encourages us all to befriend all sorts of people to make our Facebook page look more impressive.
Okay, maybe I’m being a little too negative, but then it is the first paragraph, and it’s always good to grab your audience by the throat from the outset and say something to catch people’s attention. It’s a well-used PR technique too, which leads me nicely onto the subject matter I’m tiptoeing around in this blog post. The cat is out of the bag – we know who the Stig is.
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Posted on 23rd June 2009, 9:16am
E is for Ejector Seat
I am a firm believer in learning something new every day. It keeps the mind alert and fresh, and is a constant lesson in humility, reminding me that there is always something I don’t know, eagerly awaiting discovery round the next bend. Today I managed to exceed my quota, and learned two things, both of them car-related.
Firstly, I sat down in front of my laptop this morning and watched some YouTube clips over breakfast, finally learning what “heel and toe” means. I’ve heard the phrase bandied around for some time, usually on Top Gear where they’re talking about the position of the pedals. I’ve always assumed it meant that the pedals were close enough together for you to be able to quickly and easily switch between accelerator and brake by pivotting your foot on your heel. Makes sense. But no, apparently it’s more complex than that, and all to do with down-shifting.
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Posted on 3rd June 2009, 9:00am
D is for Down South
Well, here I am in sunny Somerset, sitting on the sofa in our new home! Right now I have no internet, so I’m writing this offline and will upload later. It’s quiet, light, homely, and generally makes me smile. We’re back in the countryside! Yay!
This week has been pretty exhausting, preparing for and accomplishing the enormous upheaval of moving across the country. Monday was spent packing. Since Ellie isn’t able to do any heavy lifting at the moment that left me to pick up the slack, which meant I was off to the recycling centre mid-morning with a car chock full of odds and ends that no longer worked and needed chucking out. So it was goodbye to my old bass amp, which hasn’t been working for years (and to be honest it wasn’t a great amp at the best of times), farewell to two CRT monitors (which was a little sad because both of them worked, I just couldn’t find anyone who wanted them), my first Mac went out too (dead motherboard, too old to do anything with anyway), plus a dead printer and a dead microwave. It was heavy work, carting each item to its appropriate recycling container, but in some ways it was quite therapeutic, getting rid of a whole load of ’stuff’ that had been cluttering the house.
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