Just took Jake in to collect his GCSE results. Here’s how he did: A – English A – Science B – History B – Additional Science C – Mathematics C – Art & Design C – English Literature C – German He didn’t get his ICT result – which is a BTEC course, and that [...]
Categories: Family
Tagged: Education, English literature, GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, German language, Music festival, School, Secondary
Jake summons his minions to lay waste to Hannah’s troops For some reason, after about a five year hiatus, Jake suddenly went digging through our never-unpacked boxes of stuff from New Zealand for his Magic The Gathering cards. He and I used to play and collect a long time ago and he’s got the bug [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Games
This is what your iTunes library looks like when you’re a bit OCD I don’t have one of those big iPods that can fit tens of thousands of tunes on them. I have a little clip-on one that can take about 200 songs, a larger one that can take about 50 albums – and now [...]
Categories: Music
This is a bit of a test. Yesterday, after months of wanting one – arguably needing one – I finally managed to get myself an iPhone. And to be honest, now that I have one, I’m not entirely sure how I managed to go this long without. I’ve only had it around 12 hours so [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: iPhone
I went on that boat. I got wet. Before I left to go to Canada, we had a look on the map to see where things were. Jake was the first to notice that Hamilton was not far from Niagara Falls. “You can’t go all that way and not go to Niagara, dad…” And he [...]
Categories: Travel
My second day in Hamilton was spent doing a full-day consultancy at the home of singer/songwriter Jacob Moon, whose rooftop version of Subdivisions by Rush has earned him a fair bit of attention – including some positive feedback from the band itself. I arrived at Jacob’s place on the Saturday evening. He and his wife [...]
When you have one of the worst city tourism ads ever, it’s hard to rise above the poor reputation that former steeltown Hamilton Ontario (‘the Hammer’) is subjected to – but in actual fact, it’s an utterly brilliant place. Especially if you like music (despite the evidence above). After the radio conference in Toronto, and [...]
