Simon Wheatley

Category: Personal

  • Róisín Murphy and her dressing up box

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    Went to see Róisín Murphy at Academy Manchester last night: absolutely brilliant. She held the sold out audience spellbound with a fantastic voice, and a dizzying array of hats, shrugs, batwing jumpers, capes, shades, eyemasks, biker jackets and crazy metallic puff dresses.

  • BarCamp Leeds

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    Very excited to be signed up for my first BarCamp, and the first BarCamp Leeds ever. Big thanks to Deb, Imran Ali, Tom Scott & Dominic Hodgson for organising this. Now I’ve just got to work out what to talk about, ideas so far: WordPress as a CMS Events searches for Children & the Arts…

  • A Spanish tasting evening

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    We went to a Spanish food and wine evening last night at Love Saves the Day. Very interesting, with food writer Clarissa Hyman (who’s currently promoting her book The Spanish Kitchen) and Ed Cross from Boutinot. Spanish food is apparently on the up and up again, what Clarissa described as the “second food revolution that…

  • Disappearing Photoshop cursors

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    I’ve had a problem for some time now: my cursors in Photoshop CS3 on OS X are invisible. I’ve no idea why, or how it happened, but it’s really awkward when you can’t see where your mask is going to start, or where you text cursor is going to blink into being. The solution After…

  • Contractors and tradespeople

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    We’ve just had our house done up, and some of the lessons we’ve learned and problems we’ve hit may be useful to others.

  • Spiced sweet butternut squash soup

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    An improvised soup, based on a combination of what was in the cupboard and “Spiced Sweet Potato & Red Onion Soup” from Soup Kitchen; this version is pure butternut squash. That’s the wife’s lunches sorted then.

  • A Moroccan-ish Casserole

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    An improvised casserole, based on what was in the cupboard, with a Moroccan twist. Next time I’d like to try preserved lemons, which seem to be preferred over fresh for Moroccan style cooking. Staying with the MiL at the moment, so I was able to take advantage of her terracotta casserole dish which seemed appropriate…

  • The Government double charges us for data

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    I’ve just felt sufficiently exercised to write to my MP, about the UK government charging for information they’ve collected with our (the UK taxpayers) money. For example, I’m doing a location based events search for Arts & Kids. The data underpinning this has been collected by OS and the Royal Mail, using tax payers money,…

  • Aha

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    Finally I get around to updating my site to use something more sophisticated than hand written HTML. It’s a start. Things that were on the left are (probably) on the right now. Oh, apart from Dress-a-Doll which gets it’s own link above.

  • Steve Johnson’s 40th

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