http://www.obyto.co.uk Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-baking http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-baking#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:23:01 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=250 To suggest that life without longueurs is a shallow thing is not to decry certain zip-quick elements to the daily grind. However, amongst all this bump and hustle must be found times in the day to set it all, appreciatively, in context. A walk to work, or to a friend’s house, or just around your [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-baking/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-cricket http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-cricket#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:23:46 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=252 It’s an office-divider, a personality diviner, a barometer, milestone and litmus test. Where do you stand on cricket? Its increased popularity post-Ashes (2005) has made inroads into the national consciousness, but has done little to change the essential polarity of opinions around it, which some argue with surprising vehemence. A ridiculous simile is needed, in order to [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-cricket/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-silence http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-silence#comments Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:24:55 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=255 I tell you what phrase brings up terrible images: chillout dance. The amount of twittish behaviour that immediately springs to mind is surprising. At the moment, I can see a man in his late 30s, sweaty, curly hair down to his shoulders, bobbing up and down on the spot, arms outstretched towards the ground, hands and [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-silence/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-travel http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-travel#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:29:39 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=58 Want some larger aisles? Buy yourself a ticket to CLOUD CUCKOO LAND SONNY]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-travel/feed 0 http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-value http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-value#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:25:22 +0000 admin http://www.obyto.co.uk/wordpress/?p=257 ‘Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.’ Warren Buffett ‘Spin doctors, post-literate and self-deceiving, had no use for subtlety. Best Value. They hammered the tag into their inelegant, over-designed freebies. These glossy publications, political correctness in all its strident banality, existed to sell the lie. Best Value.’ Iain Sinclair Well, I’m at a loss. [...]]]> http://www.obyto.co.uk/liferants/on-value/feed 0