Archive for July, 2008

Sent like a postcard from place to place

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Sorry for being a bit of an obsessive, but I found these two rather charming Leonard Cohen videos on YouTube. One is an interview with Leonard backstage in the city of Hamilton, Ontario by Macleans Magazine earlier in the summer. The second video is a short excerpt from a documentary called This Beggar’s Description […]

If the boat were empty

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Wowzers the last few days have been hot and humid. After even the slowest of glides to work and you arrive sodden. I’ve been trying to take it easy on my morning cycle ride, in the hope I won’t arrive all sweaty and skip the queue for the shower (at the office, not home). This […]

Cake, bike and pun

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Cake
This Monday our office had a second bake-off, where staff bring in home-made cakes and biscuits which get sold for charity. We raised the respectable sum of £44.50 for When you Wish Upon a Star, and remarkably my cake was voted the favourite. It was lucky that I remembered about the bake-off on Sunday afternoon, […]

Just the other side of intimacy

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Although I wrote up a review of Leonard Cohen in the Manchester Opera House last month, I was lucky enough to see him again last week at the O2 last week, so I thought I’d put down a few recollections of that concert too. The set list was the same as Manchester, but there were […]