Life
Sometimes They Nest… Some More!
Betty, my Speckledy hen, has gone broody. This means she will sit on the nest for about 21 days, not laying any eggs and barely eating. Which is a problem if you’re Rosie (my other hen), and want to lay an egg. And a problem if you’re Betty and don’t get enough to eat or [...]
My house is on Google. My jaw is on the floor.
Google Street View went live for the UK yesterday. So I promptly did the only rational thing and went looking for my house. To my utter astonishment (given I live in little known Norbury), here it is, and what’s more I can pinpoint this photo to some time between May-July 2008 by recognisable features and [...]
Plan plot scheme!
“PLAN PLOT SCHEME!” is what I wrote on my To Do list last weekend. …Not realising until I read it back that it’s just the sort of thing Guy Fawkes (not that one) may have typed into his PDA-equivalent one October weekend in 1605. What I meant was the relatively innocent task of planning a [...]
Geek is good!
My big sister didn’t know I had a blog. She does now: Swiftly followed by: And look, she’s using Tweetdeck! Go sis! (And hello, if you’re reading this).
I’m living in a box
I’m living in a cardboard box. This is just some of the evidence of a weekend well spent. I also managed to plan my veg garden for 2009, more about which later this week.
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
