Coffee & Complexity

Coffee Break

Blog Rebuild in Progress

It’s just possible that this site looks really, really ugly as you visit it right now. Here’s why:

I’ve finally figured out what I want to do with this blog, so I’m working on rebuilding it to make it work the way I want it to. And that means quite a lot fo changes to the way it’s structured. If you’re reading this at all, it means C&C is on its new web host. And next, I work on getting the design and plugins I want in place.

Stay tuned: good things coming…

Will Video Comments Work?

Will Video Comments Work? 

More Sunshine in Sutton

The same pic, this time brought in from Flickr:

Which works better?

Sunshine in Sutton

A lovely wee picture, just to test out the new uploading functionality in WordPress 2.5

Wordpress Upgrade

If the gods of technology have been kind, this blog should now be running on the latest version of Wordpress.

Hurrah.

The Sea

Coffee & Computing

 Just testing a plugin to integrate this blog with my Flickr account 

Suffolk Melancholy

…there undoubtedly is something unnerving about East Anglia. Whether it’s those huge skies, that almost aggressively flat landscape — or the sheer, slightly agoraphobic sense that the world could at any moment tilt and swallow you up — it’s a place that makes the heart race, the blood quicken. It’s a landscape that makes you tread cautiously, glance behind you, check your tracks.

— Julie Myserson in the foreword to Line Dancing: Stories from East Anglia

Suffolk is a strange place.

In part, I love it. That “two decades behind the rest of the world” feel, the friendliness of the staff in the market town shops and the beautiful rural countryside. I spend quite a lot of time there right now, because it’s where my mother lives. I look forward to my visits there, and quietly dread my return to the thronging metropolis at the end of my stays.

And yet.

When talk turns to the idea of moving to Suffolk, both Lorna and I hesitate. There’s something uncanny in the beauty of Suffolk, an edge to it that keeps me from loving it fully because, truth be told, I’m more than a little afraid of it.

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