First Check Your Meniscus

by | Jan 1, 2007 | Life Journal

It’s a New Year. 2007. (My flat is amongst the houses in the photo above) As Matthew Walker always does at this time, here’s my list of interesting occurrences to summarise the year: I ran sub-40 minute in a 10 km road race I saw my friend Julia safely into a marriage...

One Shining Moment

by | Oct 6, 2006 | Life Journal

In my absolutely superb two week holiday break I’ve been doing a bit of reading. The local gay guys (of whom I believe there are 7) have, in a quite ordinary green Nike gym bag assembled what they call the “Library”. An eclectic collection of novels and non-fiction...

A Room With A View

by | Oct 1, 2006 | Life Journal

I’m not a stranger to spending time by myself. In fact I believe I thrive on it. That, and introspection. The two go together well, I guess. (As an aside, I often look at other people’s journals and it hasn’t escaped my attention that almost without fail, the writers...

It’s Spring!

by | Sep 27, 2006 | Life Journal

Yeah, not only is it spring, but Heath’s looking dirty, so that means I really must have been occupied over the last few weeks. And I have. School’s been wonderful though. The students all had exams (which meant untold marking for my colleagues and myself –...

Internal Shifts

by | Sep 11, 2006 | Life Journal

I think that something is changing. Those internal shifts that occur are sometimes barely perceptible, easy to miss. Then one day you turn around and nothing looks quite the same as it used to. My last entry on my last website was all about the online world that I’ve...