Pete Ashton’s Blog

Here’s a rather strange photo of Kate I took at her birthday in June.
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As you know I’m moving to Birmingham in August. The last time I was flat hunting the blogosphere came to the rescue so there’s no reason it might no again.

If anyone has or knows of a spare room is Birmingham for rent please !

I’m going to start looking the week of August 4th and ideally would want to move in on the weekend of August 16th, though this is flexible.

It’ll be for at least 6 months, probably a year. A small room is fine - I’m just bringing a couple of bags - and the cheaper the better. Circa £40 a week? I smoke but I’m more than happy to do so outside.

Cheers!

• Setting up ComICA at the ICA

• Sunsets on the farm

As some will know, while on the farm I grew a quite prodigious beard. Just before it came off I took a photo. Here it is.
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The Real Underground is a great flash thingy that morphs between the original 1933 London Underground map, the current version and, most interestingly, how it really looks compared with street level. (via Weekly Incite)

A wonderful link from Metafilter takes us to International Standard Paper Sizes, a long, details and fascinating article explaining how the A3/A4/A5 system. Okay, fascinating if you’ve spent most of your life with photocopiers and zines but still worth a scan through.

Great MeFi discussion as well littered with good links and hardcore wryness.

On the stairs leading up to the attic where I’m typing this are small piles of children’s books. Most are from the late 70’s when my sister and I were kids with a few of Mum’s from the 50’s. It’s odd seeing them there, like distant echos of history. Even odder reading some of them for the first time in over two decades. I’ve scanned in 23 of the more interesting covers, some you’ll know, some are just odd, all have that look of an era.
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