I still haven’t got into the festive spirit. Maybe because I have hardly heard a reference to Jesus and the few that I have are quite cheesy or stale. Tonight I get to enjoy a midnight candle light carol service with the church i grew up in. Usually the tranquil affair is somewhat undermined by the cacophany of voices from the backrow. I am usually found in the backrow. Let’s hope I don’t have to read anything.
Monthly Archive for December, 2003
It took less than an hour and I have finished it all before Christmas eve. With the Christmas shopping out of the way I had a look around a city that in places is so familiar but in others completely unrecognisable. The geography itself, not just the buildings and facades, has changed. I found myself wandering and wondering around the new shopping mall. You may have seen it on TV or in the papers, probably titled “Another Example of the Ridiculous”. I could go on about how it is the new hub of globalisation, or the biggest shrine to consumerism in the city but I found myself strangely lost in the architecture. Curves on curves and circles in circles. Blobs and lots of them. Ergonomic design gone huge. Exactly what is it all made of?! I am not sure but I was reminded of failing to realise anything out of Fimo as a kid. A novelty piece that I am sure will end up as dated and repulsive as the former Bull Ring was, quite soon. I may be wrong but that will mean a metropolitan world of giant glass, steel and polymer clay blobs.
Welcome to the wonders of server space and ftp clients. Oria and Matt walking through Windermere talking about the meaning of life and the price of beer in the local pubs.