October | 2008 | Nathan Nelson

From the monthly archives: October 2008

Oversharing

On October 19 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

Every so often I write a blog entry so loaded with bile that I come back to it fifteen minutes later and delete it, feeling foolish that I wrote it. Sometimes, I write something harsh or sweary or just plain unfunny and I’m tempted to do the same, even get rid of the whole blog, [...]

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Money

On October 19 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Photography, Travel

Ironically when I’m totally skint I’m framing money – various notes collected over travels of the past few years.

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TV rant

On October 19 2008 · 3 Comments · In Diary

I used to have a black and white TV, this little thing, that had a dial on the front for tuning. You’d turn the wheel through endless expanses of grey snow to tune it, and get BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel Four, but you’d only get Channel 4 in the afternoons because it hadn’t started [...]

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Cheap ketchup and sleepwalking

On October 13 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

Someone back in 2001 famously said, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on New York, that it was “a good day to bury bad news”. She has rightly disappeared into obscurity. Anyway, with all the ridiculous end-of-the-world saying around the financial crisis, it’s a good time to remember that there is other stuff going [...]

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