Chess clothing?

Chess clothing?  Say what?

For anyone that has never heard of such a thing I assure you it exists.  Although chess clothing is not quite the same thing as clothing for many other sports eg Karate.

I tend to prefer to dress casually, T-shirt and jeans type casual if I am given my choice, although I do possess three suits and some other “normal” clothing.  Every now and again my girlfriend looks at my *ahem* selection of clothing and goes mental; telling me that some treasured family heirlooms t-shirts and other stuff must be thrown out.

As I suspect that she has a better grip on this thing called “social reality” than I do, I tend to give in and jettison some clothing on condition I can replace it like for like.  It was under this detente process that I recently went looking for new t-shirts and came across a really great website called Endgame Clothing.

I am 6’5” and pretty long in the body for my height so sometimes t-shirts resemble belly tops on me, especially after a few washes.  For this reason I e-mailed the company to enquire about length, received a polite reply and have since placed my order. Although it is quite unbecoming for a guy at 40+ to be excited by such an order I admit that I am…a little.  The t-shirts look really good and most American T’s I have bought last really well, not at all like the low quality stuff generally sold in the UK (2-3 washes and throw it away as it is so far out of shape).

I ordered four T’s but to save space here is an image of one of them:

When they arrive from the US I will post again and let you know if I am still as impressed.

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It must be love

It must be love.

I am lucky to have my girlfriend.  I know this to be a fact, as she tells me so regularly!   (Sorry Jen. )

Anyway, to be serious for a second, she was off shopping with a friend in IKEA the other day as saw something with my name on it – literally.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00120818

A laptop table called Dave!  I mean how cool is that?  (If you happen to be called Dave of course…)

Even though I have proper workstation in a home office upstairs I tend to do the majority of my writing on my laptop at the moment.  It is a habit I got into while ill and it will probably continue a fair while as it has forced me to get used to the keyboard etc.  So now you know on what my laptop rests and very comfortable it is too.

By the way dear reader, yes she was out shopping but no wallets were hurt in this production.  She paid for it herself as I am a poor writer with no income remember?

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Online Instructional Videos about Writing

Writing can be a lonely activity.  You basically work alone even if you can generate your inspiration from others.  I guess this is why a lot of writers do Creative Writing courses or join writing circles or similar.  Although I am a quiet person, I guess in this desire for similar minded company I am no different.  What could be better than spending time on a Creative Writing course, with others of similar mind and actually improving my writing?

The only problem I have at the moment is actually finding one!  At this time of year the academic courses have already taken their intake and, as yet, I can’t find a local social course.  For this reason I have been looking on the internet and while doing so I came across:

http://www.hoopwriters.com/creative-writing-masterclass-1-ideas-inspiration/

This is a writers class, given by a published writer, in video format.

Excellent!

So far I am really enjoying the material and it is a nice substitute until I can find a real world class.

Dave

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