Tumbleweeds...

Totally hooked on “Photograph” from Nickelback. Volume cranked up & playing over a...

Mar 31st

Neurons starting to spark http://tinyurl.com/2w74yh

Mar 31st

Minutes written. Time to veg with some crappy TV i think.

Mar 31st

Feel the need better tag for BrightMeadow2 - suggestions anyone?

Mar 31st

Typing up minutes. Can there be any more thankless and boring task? I quite frankly loathe it. At...

Mar 31st

Off to cook something inventive and hopefully digestible involving pasta, tomatoes and goats cheese....

Mar 31st

Home from work after just 3 hours. Never a good sign. Lovely afternoon stretches ahead full of...

Mar 31st

Everyone running late today. Seeing people on the late bus normally see half hour earlier.

Mar 31st

Now COMMENTS on my blog are attracting spam?! Well, the no spam existence of a shiny new blog was...

Mar 30th

Jo is baking shortbread AND oatmeal cookies. No escape. Why do I have to live with a woman who bakes...

Mar 30th

Sunday Roast: thy beard is an offence against...

Mar 30th

Sunday Roast: thy beard is an offence against...

Mar 30th

Can I go to Portugal for my birthday please? Fun looking wiki conference…...

Mar 30th

Having issues setting time on fancy digital watch. Silly technology being overly complex. Still,...

Mar 30th

Question. How do I get a playlist from my ipod (matching OLD iTunes library) to my NEW iTunes...

Mar 29th

No N95 for Cas just yet. Silly plan with video min built in. I mean, who am I going to video call? I...

Mar 29th

Setting up iTunes. Music now happily living on external harddrive. Now just got to persuade it to...

Mar 29th

You know you’ve had a tattoo a while when it gives you a shock to see it as you’ve got...

Mar 29th

Off into town to see if I will actually do something about changing phone contracts…

Mar 29th

Once again woke up at 8.30 on a Saturday. Unheard of and unnatural I say! Still, got lots done and...

Mar 29th

Well argos customer service is shockingly awful! New freeview box tho. Here’s hoping it lasts...

Mar 29th

DowningStreet on twitter AND Flickr? This… merits some consideration.

Mar 28th

Home early. Side-effects of pills currently worse than disease itself. Oh the things we do to...

Mar 28th

Really need to get decent phone so at least can follow twitter when away from computer. Who knows,...

Mar 27th

Late night blogging never good idea. http://tinyurl.com/3d7nhx Here’s to tomorrow being better...

Mar 27th

The Impression

Mar 27th

The Impression

Mar 26th

I think the word i am looking for is oof. Possible ugh. Long day that accomplished nothing. I hate...

Mar 26th

OK, back from yoga and absolutely FAMISHED. Going through rss will have to wait.

Mar 25th

Having far too much fun chasing links with this weeks WeTellStory:...

Mar 25th

It took all day but my database is alive again! Woot!

Mar 25th

There are few smells more yummy than that of fresh baked shortbread. One smell yummier is fresh...

Mar 24th

Starting on making chocolate chip shortbread. MMmmmmmmm

Mar 24th

In middle of huge filing purge - do I *really* need all those receipts & bits of paper and the...

Mar 24th

Having a few issues with my shiny keyboard. Plug the mouse in and *poof* it isn’t recognised....

Mar 24th

Pondering how to spend my bank holiday monday. Something that doesn’t involve pigging out on...

Mar 24th

Spending money like it’s going out of fashion. Damn online retailers!

Mar 23rd

Sunday Roast: I didn’t think I could take the...

Mar 23rd

Roasty-goodness available. Enjoy folks. http://tinyurl.com/2vvnf9

Mar 23rd

Sunday Roast: I didn’t think I could take the...

Mar 23rd

Bloody iPlayer. watched wrong episode of Torchwood thanks to them not making it clear if it was BBC3...

Mar 23rd

Doing the laundry marathon from hell.

Mar 23rd

Catching up on Fridays Torchwood on iPlayer - pleasantly surprised by streaming quality. Way to go...

Mar 23rd

Driving down M4 don night out in London, David Jordan blaring on stero. Good times.

Mar 21st

Last minute packing again. Off to Reading & London for a few days. Have fun without me :)

Mar 21st

Day started well with cute Scottish guy in office. Went downhill from there to end with siting of...

Mar 20th

First time in weeks i’ve left the office at a sensible time. Woot! Still just missed bus tho....

Mar 19th

Having to completely reset machine after work it have been playing. Really really wish was on a mac...

Mar 19th

Going through 3 days of RSS. Not sure is wise decision late at night. Know am missing some good...

Mar 18th

Making fairy cakes & found use for new moleskine - recipes!

Mar 18th

Oof yoga. That’s all i have to say

Mar 18th

Internet returned to Meadow Towers. Silly Tiscali.

Mar 18th

Home from tea with illyna. Watched Blades of Glory. Silly/funny movie. Had result of Dancing on Ice...

Mar 16th

Sunday Roast: it wasn’t the mexicans

Mar 16th

Sunday Roast: it wasn’t the mexicans

Mar 16th

Resisting the lure of the shortbread in the kitchen. Just. Must save some for people at work...

Mar 16th

Shortbread chilling in the fridge prior to cooking. Time for a shower the Roast writing.

Mar 16th

Awake. I really need to stop waking up so early at the weekends - it’s unnatural!

Mar 16th

I *heart* OSX

Mar 15th

I *heart* OSX http://tinyurl.com/324axs Thanks for all the crossed fingers. Rarely has it gone so...

Mar 15th

I *heart* OSX

Mar 15th

Enough playing with computers for now. All major things up and running. Will play with other apps...

Mar 15th

Setting up mail accounts - most tedious part of whole process and only thing couldn’t work how...

Mar 15th

OS installed. Issues with wireless. Moving data whilst router sees error of it’s ways

Mar 15th

Reformating hd right now. Feel very nervous! At least soton has apple genius bar if all goes totally...

Mar 15th

About to wipe HD and do fresh instal of OSX. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Oh lord…

Mar 15th

Back from hairdressers to find disk image created. Now got to verify and open to make sure all went...

Mar 15th

Oof, backup taking long time. Well, it can trundle away to itself whilst i go get my hair done.

Mar 15th

Up at 8.30 on a saturday? That is just not right. Drinking tea, making lists of files need to back...

Mar 15th

Third Time the Charm: Shiny. New. Lovely. Shiny!

Mar 14th

Get new keyboard and mouse starts feeling all neglected. Is now refusing to reliably click. Time for...

Mar 14th

Home finally. Decided cup of tea might be more advisable than that big scotch.

Mar 14th

Few sights more depressing than turning corner & seeing bus just pulling away. Been long day....

Mar 14th

http://tinyurl.com/3ydpa3 for the curious

Mar 13th

Cleaning out folders, finding some good draft stuff, inc start/finish of story I never got around to...

Mar 13th

Even Angels Fall

Mar 13th

Even Angels Fall

Mar 13th

What is it about new office that makes me stay late? Cold, soggy & finally on yay home

Mar 13th

Call to all who have snap snap shots enabled on their blogs. *please* turn it off! Nothing makes me...

Mar 12th

Wasting time on 43 things - http://www.43things.com/person/brightmeadow

Mar 12th

And there end S2 of Stargate Atlantis. What are we going to watch in the evenings now?!

Mar 12th

Oh ooof, that was a day and a half! Lots done though. Office looking a little less like a set for...

Mar 12th

And… the evil scraper bots have found brightmeadow.wordpress. Didn’t take them long....

Mar 11th

OK, enough silly vanity searches in google Cas. It’s time to sleep some before Dr and results...

Mar 11th

Meadow Towers is wherever I live/blog from. Is such a name really applicable if I was to live on a...

Mar 11th

Helping Jo to make balloon animals. We are a multi-talented household here at Meadow Towers.

Mar 11th

Oh dear and fluffy lord, Lindor mini eggs are just criminally tasty. And so dinky! And tasty!

Mar 11th

Waking up. Slowly. Weird dreams last night including that was working at Random House of all places....

Mar 11th

Me and my Moleskines

Mar 10th

Me and my Moleskines

Mar 10th

Now girly has to sleep. More unpacking & tidying to do tomorrow. Possibly even some light shelf...

Mar 10th

Realising that you never can be too sure where you’re tweets will end up! @billt - great...

Mar 10th

Reading great article at the digitalist on the future literary web - http://thedigitalist.net/?p=108

Mar 10th

Hot toast with homemade chunky spread marmalade. Food of the gods.

Mar 10th

soya milk experiment not successful. taste not bad but very off putting smell - didn’t finish...

Mar 10th

It was a dark and stormy night… And now a dark and stormy morning. Hey ho, hey ho, back to...

Mar 10th

Amazed at number of people who don’t actually read what is written clearly in front of them!

Mar 9th

How the Net has changed how I read

Mar 9th

Sunday Roast - You can’t improve on MacGyver

Mar 9th

So Hello Again

Mar 9th

Roast written. Finally. http://tinyurl.com/3e2arv

Mar 9th

now itunes is conspiring against me. i give up. time to be old fashioned and read a book on a sunday...

Mar 9th

Sunday Roast - You can’t improve on MacGyver

Mar 9th

Sunday Roast - You can’t improve on MacGyver

Mar 9th

Mystery deepens. Hack in an error message to BM and it starts to work (patchily). *throws up hands...

Mar 9th

OK, everyone decamp to the alternate blog while I get normal service resumed....

Mar 9th

WTF!!!!! Now half my directories have gone walkabout off the server?! They were there this morning!

Mar 9th

Well that sucks. Wake up early, decide to get the Roast done before lunch & can’t f*ing...

Mar 9th

OK. Server just upgraded to PHP5 apparently. Possible issue with old version of WP? Esp as prob...

Mar 9th

So Hello Again

Mar 9th

How the Net has changed how I read

Mar 9th

Some people impulse buy clothes. I impulse buy apple keyboards

Mar 8th

New apple keyboard = so thin & shiny! It shouldn’t matter, but it is nice for peripheral...

Mar 8th

Intriguing proposal just presented itself - do I want to live on a boat just outside London when it...

Mar 8th

Think it’s time to turn Twitter off till SXSW is over - the blackouts and inexplicable bugs...

Mar 7th

Mystery. Completely reset Safari - clear cookies, cache etc. Reboot to find cookies from Flickr...

Mar 7th

Wow. Nuking 644 emails from your gmail spam folder really does give your day a smile :D

Mar 7th

Time for food. Mmmm fresh baked cherry scones from the local bakery.

Mar 7th

How the Net has changed how I read

Mar 7th

Is very hard to type without using left little finger. Am fine till need shift - when was last time...

Mar 7th

Gah! Write Room dropped list of drafts of things was working on. All still saved, but I can’t...

Mar 7th

Haircut booked. Hairdresser referrers to me as “the X-Men girl!” If there was any doubt,...

Mar 7th

Expect handyman Thur afternoon. He turns up Fri morning before I’ve even had tea or a shower....

Mar 7th

Facebook bugging out on you is sure sign its time to give up & get some sleep. Last day of...

Mar 6th

Fed up waiting for plastering man. Off to Portswood to buy some icecream and other things that are...

Mar 6th

What are YOU doing for World Book Day? http://www.worldbookday.com/

Mar 6th

pondering wisdom of staying up to watch Dexter. Serial killers and sliced/diced prostitutes just...

Mar 5th

Sleep now. Wonder what time (if) handyman will turn up tomorrow to do the plastering necessary so...

Mar 5th

Wednesday Waffles: There are no excuses…

Mar 5th

More than a little late...

Mar 5th

Back home. Good trip for once. Depressed by sight of groaning inbox.

Mar 5th

We’ve got snow!

Mar 3rd

facebook, twitter & gmail all grinding on dial-up. Can’t believe all my computing used to...

Mar 2nd

dont have time or phonebill for flickr&9rules + dancing on ice is starting. wish could say just...

Mar 2nd