Report From Base Camp

September 27, 2009 in Personal

Reporter : There are extraordinary scenes going on around me here at Base Camp of the expedition by Squonky to make a solo attempt on the North Face of “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, a novel which Squonky maintains is Hardy’s most soporific ediface.
I have the intrepid Squonky himself here with me right now, fresh from [...]

No Stairway

September 25, 2009 in Personal

I’ve long held an appreciation of the music of Led Zeppelin. Their albums tended to alternate with those of Genesis on my record player as a teenager. My dad must have cursed as the whole house shook to the sound of “Los Endos” and “Squonk” followed by “Kashmir” and “Whole Lotta Love”.
Of course, one of [...]

Return to Coventry

September 13, 2009 in Personal, Photography

Back in the autumn of 1986 I started a degree course in Computer Science at what was then Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry (now Coventry University). It didn’t go well. I ended up dropping out of the course by the end of the year and I think a lot of the reason for that was the [...]

I’m walking on…. tarmac

September 5, 2009 in Personal, Walking

A couple of years or so ago, in the lifetime of the original SquonkyBlog, I got into a routine of walking in and out of work. It was a distance of 4.5 miles each way, so 9 miles a day. Over the period of time I managed to keep doing it for, I managed to [...]