QotD: Emergency Contact

Who do you write down as your Emergency Contact? Why did you pick this person?

Lorna, my wife. I think it's one of the rites of adulthood, when you move from having a parent as an Emergency Contact to your significant other.

Also, given that my parents are both deceased, contacting them might be a bit tricky...


Boris Goes Swimming

River in Labour-controlled Lewisham attacks Conservative Mayor:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf

Boris pratfalls: brightening up Thursday afternoon.


Reflux

Reflux
Oh, God. Advertisers have spotted that I'm middle-aged, haven't they?


Serious Photography

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Here’s Rev Stan having her picture taken. How rude!


Pub Quiz

Pub Quiz
Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.

Pub Quiz

Pub quiz in the Eliot Arms, St Germans, Cornwall
Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.


The 11th Doctor's First Companion

Karen Gillan


My initial reaction was a pleasingly blokey "Cool. A cute redhead." I like cute redheads. (I cite my wife as evidence.)

And the second was "Oh, my God. She's 21. I'm old enough to be her father."

Nothing makes you feel old like the TV show you used to love as a kid...

Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before

Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.


Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before

Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.


Oops


Mr Timworth, I Presume?

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[moblogging from my iPhone. High chance of typos]



Mr Timworth, I Presume?

image902485666.jpgThey never get it right…


Vaulted

The roof of Bristol Cathedral, where we watched a distant relative of Dr T. being collated as a canon at the weekend.

The Improvement Society

Improvement
The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.

The Improvement Society

The Clifton & Hotwells Improvement Society plaque
The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.


Where are the bees?

Where indeed?

Paint Your Fake Coal

You have no idea how depressed this makes me:

Coal Paint
Paint, for the fake coal in your fake fireplace.

Such industry around the unashamedly inauthentic.


I've been to Brean

Can't say as I recommend it.


Thank a Farmer


Digital Polaroids

Been having some ever-so-slightly pointless fun with an application called Poladroid, which allows you to make modern digital photos look like 70s Polaroids