James Ots

For the new year I went to Scotland, to visit Andrew, who is manager of Braincroft Bunkhouse, which currently doesn’t have a great website, but will soon. The only people I knew there were Andrew and Fiona, both of whom I met in Kenya, but by the time I left I felt like I’d known ...

At least, it was until a few minutes ago. Today I got eighteen new DVDs to add to my collection, all of which have been added to my list on the music page, so if you’re coming round to visit and want to watch a DVD you now have plenty of choice.

Test The Nation was on TV tonight. I didn’t watch it until the very end, when I discovered there was an online version on the BBC website. I took the test myself and ended up with a score of 38 out of 70, which would be pretty poor until you realise that the questions were ...

Last night I went to the first performance of this year’s Nexus Christmas Concert. Put on by the Nexus Academy of Music Ministry, it was the students’ first chance to show what they’ve been learning over the last few months, and after seeing this performance I can’t wait to see what they’ll be like by ...

Shown to the right is the old style of contact lens container that I have been using, as seen through my eyes before I’ve put my contacts in. The lens for my right eye is in the grey end of the tube, the left lens is in the blue end. Now this is the new ...

Just before midday Matt asked me to drive him to the station, so I did. I then went to Boots, booked an eye test, and then went into town to see if there was any music I wanted to get. I didn’t buy any music, but I did discover that Nexus were doing a concert ...

The other day while walking into town I noticed the tiles on the walls of the subways under the ring road, and though they might be useful in some graphic design one day. Today I thought of a use for them, so I went into town with my camera. I took a load of photos ...