For anyone who finds themselves regularly stressed at their work desk, and who doesn’t have to worry too much about children or pets interfering with their desk furniture, I wholly recommend getting yourself a miniature zen garden, and a water feature.
I now have both on my desk here at Profero, and they have already helped [...]
have been greatly exaggerated.
Firstly, thanks to everyone who has sent messages wishing well. I am OK, and alive, and I thank my boss and true great friend Mathias for getting me to hospital and generally looking after me.
As for what happened, I shall explain briefly. I have been under quite a lot of stress at [...]
I have finished another tune. Yes, I have. The last one was in January, and the last one before that was a few years back, so I’m accelerating. Fancy that.
This one was originally concepted a bit by me and my spirit-brother Mr Ian Farrer at least 6 years ago, and some of the melodies we [...]
I had a chair.
It was a huge great black reclining job from Ikea, the Valhalla of household goods, and for a couple of years I loved it. I say reclining, it just had an extendable footrest that lifted up when you yanked the lever, a but like Joey and Chandler’s chairs in Friends.
But then I [...]
Been offline for a leetle while. Quick round-up:
Have bought car, a ‘96 Honda Civic LS 1.6i, it had some major overheating problems, it’s now fixed, no thanks to the guy in South Woodford who charged me £115 to replace a part that wasn’t broke, MASSIVE thanks to the guy in Leytonstone who actually knew something [...]
A couple of weeks ago I bought a second-hand Honda Civic, and it looks like the guy saw me coming.
When I got home it was overheating, and having the thermostat replaced hasn’t fixed the problem. The local guy who did the thermostat job reckons it’s the head gasket, and reckons I’m in for about £600-700 [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
I’ve said it before, but I really do need to have non-rock music inserted in between the slabs of distortion every now and then, and today’s mind-zen soundtrack is Harold Budd’s wonderful “Avalon Sutra”.
If a cup of coffee in the morning is like combing the brain, this is like giving it a nice long massage [...]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
I’ve had this Wordpress version of my site for maybe fifty years now, and I only just got around to making a proper About page. Go figure.
–c.
