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Biography/map project – all the places I’ve spent the night
A few weeks ago, in those crazy moments between turning off the light and actually falling asleep, I had an idea to make this map as a way of preserving memories: a map of everywhere I’ve spent the night in the UK. View Places I’ve spent the night in a larger map I’ll call it [...]
My life so far in video games – in a venn diagram
After doing the last ones, I just had to do it for this too. And it was almost as fun as playing the games ;) (Click to enlarge, naturally.)
My life so far, in video games
Age 5-10: Platform: ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum +2, ZX Spectrum +3 Games of note: Horace Goes Skiing, a Scooby Doo game, some adventure game where I couldn’t get passed the fourth screen no matter how hard I tried, Mailstrom, Paperboy Age 9-11: Platform: Commodore 64 Games of note: Snare, Football Manager, Split Personalities, Skool Daze, [...]
Housekeeping post
Shiny new blog design, ooooh. I’m taking the opportunity to move some stuff around too. The biggest changes: The front page of louisaparry.co.uk is now my blog. The About Me has moved to the About Louisa page. I’ve moved all my Three Beautiful Things (3BT) posts to their own blog as they were rather overwhelming [...]
10 goals for 2010 – progress update
Right, we’re a quarter of the way through the year – am I a quarter of the way through my goals? Nope. 1. To make a meal using only ingredients I’ve grown, raised, caught or killed myself. This feels like it’s moving on a bit now as the sun is shiny and there are potatoes [...]
3BT – thump thump thump, purr, not lost
1. The rhythm of our life has changed – we’re getting up earlier, going to bed earlier and exercising far more – and it’s got its own percussive beat too: the thump thump thump of Lily’s happy tail banging against everything. 2. Carla knows the dog is there – she’s seen her, she’s definitely seen [...]