The Daily Lifeweb design and personal blog by Evan Skuthorpe

It’s the Tuesday after a long weekend and I’m sat in the Roebuck pub near work having just eaten a Cajun chicken baguette. Tastey it was too. I have my book, 1918, but I’ve been more tempted by my new poker app that I downloaded over the weekend. I managed to get tickets today thanks to O2 Priority for the Australia v England at Twickenham in November. Some more freelance work is lined up for this afternoon.

But in the meantime, I’m just sitting back enjoying this relaxing moment in the day before heading back into the business end of the afternoon for some more web design and related work. A busy week is lined up but will be topped off with a nice dinner this Friday night with my girlfriend and her family where I’ll be meeting her sister for the first time.

Pictorymag.com has a good story on London article in photos. Check it out whilst you can!

Here’s an amazing colour film of life in London in the 1920s. It was made by a man and cinematographer called William Friese-Greene and covers most major London attractions as well as street life in general.

Over 10 minutes in length and well worth a viewing.

The film footage is from the British Film Institute.

Have you ever fallen asleep on the tube and been woken by the tube driver at the end of line? I managed to do just that last night.

Coming home from a work night out, I caught the District Line from Wimbledon but on the way fell asleep and was nudged awake by the driver at High Street Kensington. In my ‘I’ve too many beers‘ state I decided I’d just get on the train on the other platform regardless. I didn’t look where it was heading or if it was even still running. It was 1am after all but I figured as the doors were open it was. Luckily it was headed west and towards Hammersmith. I’ve vague memories of walking home after that and eating Maltesers in bed before crashing out!

It could have been so much worse had the train gone east…

A friend sent me this rather funny video from YouTube. I have no idea what’s going on but it was pretty funny so here you go. I had no idea nice old ladies spoke like this.

Sitting at my desk shortly after getting to work today it started to snow. Through out the day the snow remained constantly light, turning heavy towards the mid afternoon. Heavy enough to start settling on the ground of this city I call home.

Here’s a pic I took out the window at work.

God damn you’ve gotta love Pearl Jam! They’re without a doubt the greatest band to have ever existed on the face of this earth.

I’ve got my ticket for Hard Rock Calling to see them again next year in Hyde Park London and I’m very much looking forward to it.

So today is officially the last day of my glorious beard. It’ll be shaved off tomorrow on the first day of 2010. I’ll be shaving some shapes into it for fun as I trim it back, even leaving a mo and big big sideburns to see how they look.

A selection of birthday presents from the people at work. Beer from rum barrels can’t go wrong, nice!

Last night in honour of me getting closer to the grave, a few friends and randoms ventured to my local for a night of drinky poos and an improptu game of charades. The photos can be seen on Flickr.