I Go To Norfolk!!!
February 18, 2010
Little blogger joke there. Apologies to JonnyB. Flattery like a woman scorned and all that.
Seriously, though. I am going to Norfolk and will be gone for a short while. I can keep an eye on the house, though, because my the guy over the road has a webcam trained on my front door. Not for any great reason, and he doesn’t know I know this, but I found his Twitter feed a few weeks back when I was looking for snow tweets for my post code and I recognised him from his profile picture.
From that there was a link to his blog and – long story short – there’s a webcam pointing out of his window at my front door.
This worries me, because I have to read his blog to see how loose he is with information. All he has to do is take a few flickr pics (and there are lots of his house), geotag the odd tweet; I casually I mention that I’m going away for a few days, then whoever watches the webcam can see exactly when I leave the house.
I’m pretty careful about my personal stuff on here, but as more people have blogs, it has reached the point where I’m having to check what information they give out.
So now there’s going to be this whole to-do where I have to tell him not to point a webcam at my house, and that isn’t a conversation I want to have. Jeez. These fucking days.
I may not even mention it. I might just keep reading his blog until it gets to the point where I have leave the comment: “Before you tell people where you live, do you think you could you turn off the webcam pointed at my house?”
But thanks to everyone for the questions. Here’s the lastest and by all means please keep asking.
What’s your favourite film and why?
Can I have two? One of my favourites is Fandango. There are lots of coming of age films, but this one is bittersweet, as the passing of youth is. It’s a tender film that ticks a lot of my boxes: funny, heartfelt, road movie, not too much “acting”.
It’s a close tie between that and Hannah And Her Sisters, which is a totally different kind of film. The dialogue is brilliant, the characters are amazing, and the film is a piece of genius.
If I had to think about what they have in common, I’d say they are comedies (but not blatent comedies) about the flaws and frailties within us all.
Other favourites are Spinal Tap for being the funniest film I’ve ever seen. I love Apocalypse Now. I LOVE The Big Lebowski. I also like Field Of Dreams. I liked Crash. High Fidelity I could watch over and over. Also Duck Soup. And Goodfellas, Star Wars and Shawshank,obviously.
9 comments
I think you should print the URL of this blog post out and put it in your front window, if he checks the camera that often he’ll be able to see it. That would be like the ultimate in passive-aggressive.
Can you check Norfolk out and tell me if I’d like to live there? I’m thinking I might like to live there, but I’ve never really been and that line of thinking is based on nothing more than I don’t like hills and I would quite like a job at a place in that vicinity.
Also, is that little calendar on the date of the post new? I’ve never noticed it before, it’s really quite cutesy. I like it.
Oh, but that one doesn’t get moderated. Makes my also look redundant.
You noticed… Yes, it’s new. I took my name off the top of every blog post for the time being (will explain later), and I felt it lacked something.
Also, I don’t know why one of your comments went into moderation. It was like you were unrecognised. Maybe you were using a different machine of typed in your URL differently. Welcome back, anyway.
I just ordered Hannah and her Sisters because of this. It was uncharacteristically impulsive of me – it had better be good!
It’s a curse and a blessing, anonymous blogging. As is nonymous blogging. Or whatever the antonym of anonymous is. Anyway, I never blog about work since I got fired from a job once for blogging about nothing to do with work but someone high at work objected and there was me, suddenly walking out of the door.
But I like the challenge of blogging under my real name. Two-edged Damoclesian sword and all that.
I sometimes wish I’d used a pseudonym.
It must really colour people’s first impressions of you.
I like blogging under my name – I won’t lie, there have been tensions, but I couldn’t do anonymous.
I did the whole anonymous blogging thing for two years. Gave myself a false name – if you ever see anyone commenting under old posts called “Ginny”, that’s me – and just went for it. It was fantastic at first but…one day I deleted the whole thing and started again with my real name. Why I did that is a whole other post, but I definitely prefer using my real name.
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.