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Archive for September, 2008

Still on the Beach

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All That Talk

The speech.
I know I talk a lot about speeches and toastmasters but as I tell people about my speaking and toastmasters it’s quite surprising the amount of people who’ve never heard of the organisation and know nothing about it.
It’s not simply about picking a topic and then getting up and talking about it, there is [...]

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Grounded

A grounded kite

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Words and Images

Words and images fill my days.Written words being this month’s book group choice “Maps for Lost Lovers” and I’m back to the usual race against time, this time I don’t think I’m going to win. It’s not a book that can be rushed. He writes in such a style about a Pakistani community living in [...]

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Double D

My life is filled with words and images these days, though not too many of them Dutch. Well, there are plenty of Dutch words in my life, I see them as subtitles on the television, in the free newspapers that everybody reads on the train and in the jokes and conversations that buzz around me [...]

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On the Beach

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Buy Buy Buy

It’s been strange in work the last couple of weeks, there’s been this sense of being in the midst of the action yet being removed. The whole world is falling apart and there I am in a bubble, watching.
My new job is in a financial trading company and it’s certainly given me a new understanding [...]

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Pieces of Edinburgh 5

Far from the castle, standing proud outside a shop which was having a sword sale.

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Pieces of Edinburgh 4

More steps…

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Pieces of Edinburgh 3

Edinburgh is all about hills and steps and narrow alleys

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