http://jogrindley.com Unintentionally going against the flow... Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:06:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en *** *** *** *** ***  This is not to be taken seriously in any way whatsoever... *** *** *** *** *** Due to the recent increase in fox attacks in the Greater London area, local residents have been calling for immediate action to be taken. Over the last week the London Mayor’s Office ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=295  So I last updated just before I travelled to South Africa for 3 weeks. It was great, all I could have wished for. I even got my highveld thunderstorm that I had craved for months that first day I was there, a few days later there was another that was ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=288 I have decided to put together an amalgamation of false starts and catch you up on what I have been up too in the UK. This will leave me free and uncluttered to describe my holiday in SA in more detail in a few weeks. I’ll leave my previous attempts ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=284 I can’t recall where I left off, Stafford? Cambridge? Northampton? Well, I start off from where I think I left off. I was in Stafford for two weeks, oh yes; I left off saying I was going castle hunting the next day... it didn’t pan out. It was too far ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=270 I thought it was about time I updated this blog, seeing as I finally uploaded all my pictures onto facebook. So where were we? Oh yeah, I told you very quickly how Cambridge and Cheshunt were! Ok. I was originally booked for 2 weeks work in Cheshunt with a possibility of ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=261 The first and most obvious is Ice Age 3... I see it advertised on TV every day almost half hourly. But i'm confused, the dinasours where extinct way before humans even evolved from apes. For mammals to even succeed in evolving form little more than a scrat sized character the ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=254 It’s been so long since I last wrote that I now just keep putting it off and off. So long that entire Ages have come and gone while legends, myths and local tales have been created, avidly listened to over a fire on cold winter’s night and then forgotten again. ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=250 I’ve been procrastinating again. I had nothing, still have, to tell you about. Over the last week and a bit I returned from Cheshire to Harefield. I had the unfortunate luck of travelling while it was raining. It wasn’t too bad...I had recently brought a new backpack that had a ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=235 I’m busy writing this in the warm sun, sitting on a bench in a square of sorts in Handforth, Cheshire. Watching office workers sitting and standing here and there having the lunch, be it food or nicotine, teenage skateboarders and rollerbladers racing after each other, little boys kicking a ball ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=229 I was just writing to Kelly when I came across a phrase that got me thinking. "Passed with flying colours". So, anyone know the origins of this phrase? I know that a flag used to be called your "colours" so "flying colours" could refer to a flag. The image I have ... http://jogrindley.com/?p=218