Goodbye Gareth – 2 August 2015
Gareth Mound, 1996 — 2015: Andrew Burdett offers his personal recollections of his friend and former classmate, who died in August 2015 aged just 19.
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London 2012: 24 Hours To Go – 26 July 2012
In precisely 24 hours, the Olympic Opening Ceremony is due to get under way, as the world’s eyes (an expected 4.8 billion people will watch) turn to London to see our capital city stage...
My Thoughts: Maths Non-Calculator Exam – 9 November 2011
UPDATE: I later found out that my GCSE Maths result, with the calculator and non-calculator results combined, was an A. Click here to read my thoughts on the calculator paper. It’s true that, in...
My Thoughts: Physics P2 Exam – 27 May 2011
Today should have been the start of a pause in my examinations, and a signal of the beginning of the winding down of the end of term. After all, with a mere Biology retake...
My Thoughts: Chemistry C2 Exam – 25 May 2011
My penultimate exam of this half term was this morning, at 9:00am. Having successfully put Thursday’s fairly disastrous Biology (B2) paper out of my mind, I focussed my weekend of revision on today’s Chemistry...
My Facebook: The Magic Revealed – 18 January 2011
Until today, I’d been able to resist Facebook’s mass change to its lovely newly-redesigned profiles. I say “lovely”: I hate them. It’s not that they’re different that annoys me – after all, I am...
10/10/10 – 10 October 2010
Today is (or rather has been) 10/10/10; a day which – according to a Facebook ‘like’ – will only come once every 1000 years. In actual fact, it’ll be the same six-figure date in...
iPhone 4 Officially Unveiled – 7 June 2010
Today the iPhone 4 was officially unveiled – I say ‘officially’ as Apple fans already knew what it was going to look like, thanks to an employee who left a prototype in a bar,...
