California

Flash publishes a traditional meme at the end of each year. She posts the first sentence from the first post of each month from the preceding year. Here goes mine, and I’m going to make a comment after each one… 

J: England was great, lovely to see all me nearest and dearest in person and share a pint or three. I shan’t leave it so long next time.

Can’t believe a year’s gone by without getting back 🙁

F: Well, what with having bought another car and signed a 12 month lease on our apartment, we’re here for the long haul.

So young, so naive

M: Yep the 3:17 vowel-consonant ratio means it´s Saint David’s Day again.

And it was lovely to catch up with Ian and Yuri and their kids

A: This blog’s been a bit abandoned of late more due to an overload of work and little time to update it but in brief, saw Carrie Fisher’s show Wishful Drinking last Thursday.

And blimey, it was bad

M: The problem with not posting for a while is that it builds a certain level of expectation that the next post will be somehow life-affirming and brilliant.

Then I went on to announce Sita handing in her dissertation. I really ought to consider newspaper style writing, most important bits first, details later…

J: I just passed the 10,000 photos mark on Flickr.

And I’m at: 11,290 items / 65,673 views, but who’s counting?

J: We interrupt this prolonged silence to recommend this course to you in the Fall Autumn… Check out the last professor on the Faculty link too… Sign up now!.

And who knew that 6 months later I’d have admin privileges to edit that very page…

A: Greetings from our latest ZIP code!

I’ve forgotten what Alameda’s zip was now… seems like a long time ago

S: According to Peter Trigg’s Calendar – “My kind of Somerset”, it’s the first of September, meaning we can look at a grainy picture of All Saints’ Church, Aisholt for 30 odd days
I shouldn’t criticise his calendar. I’m just jealous.

O: Posting direct from Flickr… Here’s Nostromoo’s 2nd batch of Welsh Cakes… and evidence of probably the first time anyone has printed my blog out on paper.

7 months after St. Dai’s Day, we were all getting our Welsh on…

N: I’m off to watch ‘democracy’ in action with DrSita in a mo…

And lo and behold, Obama was elected that very evening. Oregon had an impressive 86% voter turnout.

D: Word Magazine just published an advent calendar with links to videos and suchlike, I thought, I could do that:
Presenting Countdown to Xmas with ‘Cus

And a calendar was born. Hope you enjoy Day 24

When I get a chance I’ll do a first photo from every month type post too…