Please do check out my beautiful album of leaving photos – available online now!
And don’t forget to send me yours 
Still to come: leaving videos 
As usual when nicparkes.com begins to roar into life again, I get the sudden urge to make some updates myself. Nothing major, but I’ve rewritten my bio, finally put something about QPCS (though it’s still shamefully scant) along with an updated freeware page and a new photo gallery collecting my photo blogs into one neat repository. And a few other tweaks and touches along the way as well.
Apart from Nic competition, I guess I also put this down to the Duke of Edinburgh trip that has whisked many of my WLM companions away to the Lake District for a long weekend. At least I still have text contact, which I put to good use to inform the survival group that:
- I am 55% Matt Damon
- Lucy is 54% Courtney Cox
- Josie is 71% Geri Halliwell
- Andy is 60% Ashton Kutcher
You beautiful people. Source: myheritage.com Celebrity Face Recognition. So now you know.
On the 27th April 2004, I made my very first blog post on the hastily christianised ‘The Musings of a Red Dalek’. It was uninteresting, poorly written, published using Blogger using a hastily edited template and didn’t even have comments turned on. But it was a start. 
Early blog banners
Of course, some things never change. Back in 2004, I was slap bang in the middle of exams, Longhorn was the exciting new Windows OS that was ‘coming soon’, and we were at war with Iraq in a horribly dangerous situation. Fast forward two years later and… well… we’ve had an election or two? With the same people re-elected, of course…
So happy second birthday blog, and let me take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who read, subscribe, comment or even just occasionally wander across this little journal of nonsense. Here’s to the future!
Welcome to Quote of the Day, your daily morsel of the world.
Each morning at 9am I’ll post whatever line catches my eye, and you can subscribe via RSS as well as checking out the new placement on the home page.
Some of the inspiration, by the way, comes from Queen Park’s ridiculously silly ‘Thought of the Week’ pieces at the bottom of each week’s newsletter. You know the ones, deliberately constructed to state the bloody obvious and trying to sound clever while doing it. Quote for the Day, on the other hand, will be different.
We’ll see how it goes… but enjoy the ride!
Somehow, I managed to forget what was clearly the most important item of the day – my appearance in a podcast by GG. (It’s towards the end, about 4/5ths of the way through.) Apparently this blog is not only amusing, but insightful too! Cheers GG – who does podcasts so wonderfully naturally I’m surprised he’s not on radio yet.
Also as some of you have already noted, my links section is now magically randomised for you to avoid any potential conflicts. OK, well maybe it’s just me being lazy and not wanting to order them. Whichever explanation you prefer.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
