National Gallery and London by Night – 4 December 2010
It’s 19:23 on 4 December 2010, the first Saturday of December – and the busiest day in the retail year. I’m on a cramped train, heading back home to Maidenhead after a great day...
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Advent Begins: Countdown to Christmas – 1 December 2010
It’s official! The countdown to Christmas has begun! And by ‘countdown to Christmas’, I don’t mean some weird Adobe Flash® countdown timer, giving the number of seconds until the big day. No, I mean...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 22 November 2010
Here we go, regular readers will know from my last post that Dad was having troubles with the MS-DOS computer. Those problems are now fixed: it turned out that the screen’s florescent backlight had...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 20 November 2010
Tonight, Dad encountered massive problems with the computer that controls the Christmas lights – a 20-year-old, clapped-out old laptop. It wouldn’t boot and the screen had failed. This wasn’t the first time it had...
Christmas Lights Going Up – 18 November 2010
Tonight, the Burdetts’ famous indoor Christmas Lights ‘spectacular’ began to take shape. So far, only the frame has been erected across the hallway, but it’s on-track and on-schedule to be ready for our ‘Open...
End of Science Exams (For Now) – 11 November 2010
Today, I took my three Science GCSEs, after months of learning and further weeks of revision. I think they went OK, but I was unsure about some answers in each subject. We won’t know...
Blue Peter Appeal 2010 – 22 September 2010
On Monday, the BBC Children’s programme Blue Peter, launched their annual Christmas appeal. This year’s appeal is in association with Whizz-kids, a charity which aim “to ensure that every disabled child has an opportunity...
‘Living Faith: Now in Colour’ Sound and Light Show – 7 August 2010
Tonight was the night that our church’s biennial summer arts project came to – what was intended to be – its climax. The idea for tonight, originally, was to have a big hairy projector...
