katielou

November 2006



for friends

Monday, 27 November 2006 10:42 P GMT+01
As often, two half formed posts in my head crystallised by something else. This morning driving to work there was a discussion about how many friends we all have on average now. 54. (we make 400 friends in our lifetimes these days - not meet, but mak

good reads

Sunday, 26 November 2006 6:23 P GMT+01
Sorry, this is not me being excessively holy, just there's been a run on uploading material I have just written a book. Now you might be forgiven for thinking that this is hardly worthy of remark. After all, the Canon Professor can produce a work of
Category: faith thinks

can you do me a favour?

Sunday, 26 November 2006 6:00 P GMT+01
Finally! I've had the text of this for weeks, but it has only just made it to the webpage so I can link to it. Aren't there just days when you think "get out of my head!"? Whenever someone comes up to me and says ‘Can you do me a f
Category: faith thinks

medieval banquets

Thursday, 23 November 2006 7:45 P GMT+01
Well it's one way to spend a winter evening... In the company of Sir Jon Lumley (supposedly) at Lumley Castle, a medieval banquet, where your only accoutrements/implements are a bib and a dagger to get you through 5 courses! This particular one was f
Category: play

sensible housing planning

Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:31 P GMT+01
Indeed. What more is there to say? I like BoKlok. It is new houses, but I'd quite like to own a whole little street of houses like mine and decorate them nicely and cheaply and then rent them to people cheaply too to people who would make a community
Category: general

meebo

Friday, 17 November 2006 3:37 P GMT+01
Our University Library has started a new help chat service using meebo. <!-- Beginning of meebo me widget code. Want to talk with visitors on your page? Go to http://www.meebome.com/ and get your widget! -->
Category: work

help for young homeless

Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:52 P GMT+01
Not sure why I was listening to the radio this morning driving in, not the cd, but anyway, depressing radio 4 it was. Perhaps it was because it hadn't yet depressed me enough to switch to cd. Anyway, in this fabulous new world of knowing what is goin
Category: faith thinks

lucid, me?

Monday, 13 November 2006 5:54 P GMT+01
Can't have Dr Gaffel consigning me to serious stuff... These came home with me yesterday. Obviously, to be truthful I'd have preferred tan or black ones of these, but I was torn between the fact that they are entirely wearable as they are zip fasten
Category: dresses

poppies a faith symbol?

Saturday, 11 November 2006 3:09 P GMT+01
Hmm. Chatting to the Hatfield Chaplain, before the Bishop's lecture the other evening, he noticed someone wearing a white poppy. I like white poppies, he said. You don't see them very often. Indeed. Interesting - and slightly provocative - article he
Category: faith thinks

God and the war on terror

Saturday, 11 November 2006 1:26 A GMT+01
I attended the first of the new chaplain-organised lecture series in the cathedral last night. Bishop Tom on 'God and the War on Terror'. Very interesting. Or at least most of it was. Or rather, I'm sure it was all interesting. I just found
Category: faith

stem cell research

Saturday, 11 November 2006 12:19 A GMT+01
While I was at mum's in August, I read a pile of articles in the papers about stem cell research. Enough to mean to blog about it. Indeed, I even brought a cut-out article back with me for when I got chance. I never quite got round to it. But I saw t
Category: thinks

studicious?

Friday, 10 November 2006 8:09 P GMT+01
Ooh. Couldn't help overseeing this (sorry Greg), thought I better go check it out... V interesting. Could be huge, from the imagined potential. Looks like it's still in development. I'm wondering if it's available to me, but I think I'm going to try
Category: work

clouds

Friday, 10 November 2006 12:09 A GMT+01
Tags or categories? Paul has started a blog. Which looks, like Andy's podcasting one, quite different from mine. I can't see the same templates, only the ones I had to choose from to start with. I've been thinking again recently as to how I'd remodel
Category: work blogging

MOVE over!

Wednesday, 8 November 2006 8:27 P GMT+01
This morning, as my heart sank looking at the brake and hazard lights stacking up in front of me, I knew I was in for a long one before the traffic bulletin burst into my cd playing to tell me. When it did, interestingly, the daft woman on radio clev

which life

Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:55 P GMT+01
Classic description of a day just like one we spent in Second Life in the summer, when Kattan Honung and Porly Tang stepped out into second life. A soooooo frustrating afternoon. Personally, I never worked out how to fly properly. And being the kind
Category: work

humbug

Monday, 6 November 2006 9:52 A GMT+01
The nice thing about the new car is supposed to be a radio. So I can stand a vague chance of keeping up with the world around me. I'm getting bored of radio 2, there's more chat than music. Which for the most part is ok, as Terry Wogan is quite funny

oops

Sunday, 5 November 2006 6:29 P GMT+01
Apparently corseted tops are in. Not that I'm an avid follower of fashion, I know, but I thought it was a trend I could maybe join in with. And no, I wasn't shopping for dresses. As you don't. But it just happened to fall in the basket.
Category: dresses