James Ots

Last Sunday was rather busy. I went to church in the morning, but had to leave before the end of the service because I needed to be at a restaurant in Leicestershire by half twelve for my brother’s birthday meal with our family and his wife’s family. And then after that my sister and I ...

Yesterday I went to Manchester to see a band called Blindride playing at the Night and Day Cafe. I had no plans to go until the afternoon, when my housemate John said he was going, so I went along too. Some people might say it’s a bit excessive to go all the way to Manchester ...

This evening I went to The Hope And Anchor to see One Nation playing. Shay, my housemate, is the percussionist (although that doesn’t help in that picture where everyone is playing percussion!), but it’s his last gig as he’s leaving Coventry this weekend (and therefore isn’t my housemate for much longer.) The gig was very ...

Today I went to the Peak District to take photos. I left here at ten o’clock, called in at Go Outdoors to buy an OS map of the area, and got to Derwent Reservoir at twenty past twelve. I would have got there earlier but I got a bit lost driving around the country roads ...

Today I thought we’d run out of food, so I was going to go and buy some more when I remembered there was some salmon in the freezer, so I chopped some red onion and fried it with garlic in butter, and then floured up the salmon and fried it with lemon juice and herbs ...

This evening I watched the Leicester Tigers playing the Barbarians with my dad. It’s the first time I’ve been to a live game of rugby for years – probably at least eight or nine years now. The first half of the game was rather quiet, but in the second half everyong woke up and the ...

Hooray – I am finally free of NTL! Well, I hope I am anyway. At the beginning of the year I tried to cancel NTL, and they said they would after thirty days. So when they took more money out of my account I thought it would be the last payment, and cancelled the direct ...