Jem's field notes

With the new house having a garden, Karl and I are both keen on doing a bit of planting and in my case, growing vegetables/salad stuff that I can fill my fridge with. As neither of us have actually done much gardening before it’s all a big experiment really. Today we ventured out into the… read full entry »

Picture the scene: my brother and I on our way up to the local McDonalds being driven by my lovely Mummy. We get to the turn in for the drive-through and a red Peugeot is blocking the road. Realising we’re trying to pull in behind her, she pulls forward and goes through the drive-through, stopping… read full entry »

I want to successfully use Georgia [font] in a design.

I’ve noticed something recently, and it’s started to really bug me: more and more people are removing the date/time from comments on their entries. It doesn’t sound like a major offence, and up until the past few weeks it didn’t even cross my mind as a “blogging faux pas”, but I can see now why… read full entry »

I’ve had a bloody shit day and it can’t end soon enough. What with mail issues for a major client (who I really get on with, so it annoys me on a personal level) that seem to be never ending — despite the fact that everything seems OK at server level — and the gas… read full entry »

In all my years of living with cats, they’ve all just “got along” and haven’t really demonstrated any major objections to living with each other. However, I want to prepare for the worst and with me considering a second cat to keep Hex company, I was wondering if any of you cat owners out there… read full entry »

I know some of you are complaining that I’ve not been updating — such is the downside of having no Internet — so you’ll have to make do with lots of posts all in one go as and when I do have access to a ‘net enabled computer :P Karl registered us with a new… read full entry »

As some of you may or may not know, the recently opened Neonglow forums have a celebrity-based header. I criticised this not long after it was opened and the general response from the admin (Becky/Sarai/Brent) can be summarised as “we don’t care”. Y’all know I don’t agree with copyright infringement but as I have no… read full entry »

Our connection will be disconnected in an hour or so, no idea when I’ll be back on the ‘net in our new home.

With Karl and I in the process of moving house, I have decided to indulge a little in one of my few obsessions: clocks. Since I was younger I have had this unexplainable need to know the time, and to have access to an accurate timepiece. I check my watch even if I already know… read full entry »