Bitterjug’s blog

This is what I saw first thing this morning:

Wonder what Richard Dawkins would have to say about it.

On Friday night I went, with Vincent and Rodrigo from work, to club Pyms in Rennes. Pyms puts on partner dancing once a month: Salsa downstairs and some Rock and Swing upstairs. The upstairs room was very empty and the DJ put on some dreary old R&B record and, as far as I can tell, […]

Somehow I managed to go out running in the cold this morning. First time since last Wednesday. I awoke before the alarm, hauled my bulk up off the mattress on the floor, wound up the shutters and squinted out into the darkness. The day was clearly cold, but still;  I went for a pee.
And somehow, […]

1) Last night at L’haricot rouge in Rennes where the local Lindy hoppers put on something similar in intimacy and informality to Urban Swing.

2) Last weekend at the NVC course, the NVC dancefloor is a map for working out where you are in the process of using language in a nonviolent way. Those pretty cards […]

Here it is:

As you can see, there is a bit of a green worm on the top left corner of the display. It goes round and round like that all the time now; a kind of ‘progress indicator‘. Hah!
Five months after I first tried to get an Internet connection at home, I’m still waiting for […]

I just found this fantastic quote:
‘Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’
Harold Whitman (Historian)
I found it here while looking for more training courses in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) after having just completed […]

This time with a camera

See if you an guess where I took this one
 
This is my favourite so far. The original is on my flickr page.

This was this morning in the cold mist. Used the self timer and sat it on a fence post which meant its nice and sharp but I had to use […]

Here it is, this season’s latest trend:

The mobile phone with a pocket clip. The clip is from a name-tag. It means I can clip the little bugger onto the edge of the pocket in these new trousers that I got for biking to work. The problem with the trousers is that their pockets point downwards […]

Yeah, I finally bought myself a camera. Here are some more experiments from the weekend in Paris.

I don’t know who they are, I wanted to try out the ’sports’ and ‘motion’ options on the Kodak.
Also took Christmas lights:

The cunning two-lense system means I can take things really close like this poster on the Metro.

And really […]

There were two towers. This one is at Montparnasse

Here it is again, with some tell-tale street furniture:

And then there was this one:

A full-house of TGVs: two red and two silver, at Gare du Nord

And a random street-scene from near the Cinema where we went to see Casino Royale.