Regular readers will know that Sarge likes to play Go. He plays it online and is also a member of a local club. Though I believe the first rule of Go club is you don’t talk about Go club. Anyway. We’ve traipsed around game shops looking for what Sarge calls ‘a real Go board’ and even the right wood so he can make his own. A few weeks ago, we sat down to watch The Go Master, a biopic of…
This was going to be yesterday’s post, but all the fresh air from the weekend left me too tired to crank up the computer last night. Anyway. September’s book group selection was Pontypool Changes Everything. Since the Afterword basically states the movie is better, and people really shouldn’t have read the book, few of us did. When we got together on Friday night to watch Pontypool, the warm-up act was this, from Even Stevens: Don’t ask me why. I’m still…
This was taken at Loopy Lorna’s Tea House. No, not my house. I’m more a coffee person. Sarge and I were taking a break from wedding cake shopping. Sarge was timing the brew using the stop-watch on his mobile phone. I was highly amused. Do you drink tea or coffee? How do you take it? Do you use technology in interesting ways?…
‘We look like a couple of nerdy backpackers.’ ‘That’s because we are.’ On Monday, Sarge and I went to Newcastle (ish) to visit a friend of mine from University (the first one). She was the friend from this post and featured in the beginning of this one. Through no fault of our own we’d seen each other all of twice in five years. Before Monday, Em hadn’t met Sarge, and we are going on three. Because I don’t have a…
