General
Who wants to live in a barn?
Housemate Anne and I have decided city living is too cramped and what we really want is a houseshare in the country (well, almost the country).
We found this just outside Cambridge:
It’s a £2.5m designer barn conversion with a heated swimming pool, 14 acres, underfloor heating, roof-top champagne terrace… and it’s ours to fill!
We’ve got two rooms to fill (out of five) and we’re looking for awesome, energetic housemates!
The rooms are both spacious doubles with en-suites with walk-in showers at around £700/month each excluding bills.
The house has its own geothermal power plant so bills are comparitively low. (We’ve calculated about £200/month each for all bills.)
You’ll need to arrange a car (second-hand cars are cheap in the UK) or have a decent road bike (~30mins to the centre of Cambridge). Rush-hour trains from Royston take 39mins to reach Kings Cross.
We’re moving mid- to late- January, in time for my birthday party I hope.
Serious once in a lifetime stuff, so join us!
@gnomeza on Twitter. Or mail us at incrediblehome1@gmail.com.
Also check out the Estate Agent’s Brochure.
I shot some (pretty bad) video on a cold windy day in late September.
Don’t rush the Digital Economy Bill
Dear David Howarth,
I’m very concerned about the attempt to rush the passage of the Digital Economy Bill through the Commons.
I run a public wifi network for our crescent of shared houses. It’s my contribution from my own time and technical expertise.
In a time when thrift is essential, it saves us all money.
I also run a business providing software services both locally and internationally. I carry out much of my work over my internet connection at home.
But should even an accusation be raised that my network is being misused, the Digital Economy Bill means I risk disconnection and places upon me the considerable monetary cost of defending such accusations in court.
Filtering is not feasible in any meaningful sense. It’s impossible for me to distinguish between legal and illegal file-sharing traffic.
The Digital Economy Bill puts at risk the good I do for my community as well as my livelihood and deserves proper scrutiny.
As a constituent, I implore you to do all you can to ensure the Government does not rush the bill through, denying us our democratic right to scrutiny and debate.
Yours sincerely,
Mark Ferry
Ski insurance wasted
Went snowboarding in Verbier over Christmas. Returned without any broken bones this time. I feel like I didn’t try hard enough.
Photos on Flickr.
An apology
I wrote this as an RSVP to an event I couldn’t attend:
Doh.
My calendar
like a desert.
I'm a
tumbleweed
'snagged
on the solitary
cactus
on the 14th of June.
Sorry I can't make it.
These are fleeting moments of creativity