Last night I hosted an evening of poker at my make shift casino. There were not one, but two, curries with ample naan and chapatti. There was music taken from Poker Lounge (Very Best in Poker & Casino Music) and there were some little crib sheets to help people work out the value of their chips and hands.
Much fun was had by the bunch of novices that we were. Much hilarity and timid betting followed by a rush of perilous playing towards the end. Mat ended the evening victoriously hoarding a large pile of chips and the £25 pot that we were playing for.
Looking forward to the next one already.
One of the most exciting things about any sort of community is the opportunity to learn from others. Before schools, universities, libraries, books and the internet; this was pretty much the only way we could learn anything.
Today we live in a world in which knowledge has become widely available, but a caveat is that the [...]
Around this time of the year in 2006 - three years ago - Al Gore brought An Inconvenient Truth to the screen. I find it hard to explain why it has taken me three years to see it. Maybe it was because the Dark Knight was more exciting or Stardust was more romantic; maybe it [...]
After the work on the garden last week I decided to overhaul my blog. It was time for it to have a bit of a facelift so in combination with a wordpress upgrade an the use of the the swiss army knife theme called Atahualpa: here we are.
Still needs a little bit of tweaking, but I’m [...]
Everyone has pet hates about things right? With homes that you share with others it can be particular habits of other occupants that are at the top of the list. Fortunately for me, at my current house that is not a problem - my housemates are all lovely. Instead it is the garden and oven [...]