In true grown-up-before-our-time fashion, us Ealing folk have been regularly partaking in a local pub quiz under the genius name of Crouching Woman, Hidden Cucumber for nearly a year. It mainly entails us ending up with a middling score (apart from weeks when there are questions on The Wizard of Oz) and listening to the […]
Sinister trees in Walpole Park, on Flickr.
According to Robyn, “floompchk” is officially the sound that snow makes underfoot.
Kinky.
Upon hearing of the tornado in Kensal Rise, that bastion of intelligent broadcasting, Sky News, were overheard interrogating a meteorologist:
Newsreader: You’re a weatherman, why didn’t you tell us this was coming?
Weatherman: ummm…
I suppose the newsreader then went on to ask the weatherman if he could conjure up a lightning strike to punish him for the […]
How good is Never Mind The Buzzcocks these days? Last night’s episode with John Barrowman and Daniel Be-ding-ding-ding-field was a masterpiece. Between bouts of coughing, we were all in stitches - even Davros, despite his disdain for all things poofy.
Hoorah Simon Amstell. I wish I’d shaken you by the hand that one time I bumped […]
This morning, a four-mile journey to work took me an hour and a half. As previously documented, I could have completed the journey a third quicker on foot. So here’s a useful tip for anyone living in London who’s had similarly miserable experience - lousy journeys can be claimed for online using tfl’s customer refunds […]
Carrots in the sunshine, on Flickr.
So my 23rd birthday will forever be remembered as the one in which four larger-than-life fruit & veg stall workers boomed out Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs at me. I was red as beetroot for about an hour afterward…
Stealing: Mary’s ‘3 things at the bottom of a […]
We saw Superman Returns last night at London’s IMAX, and if you’re planning on seeing it then I recommend you browse away IMMEDIATELY because I’m about to spoil everything for you in quite some graphic, cape-tearing detail.
I’d forgotten about the wonder of the Y-front-shaped 3D glasses and the resultant action scenes which occur in your […]
Is what they’ve forecast for Wednesday. I am concerned. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced temperatures hotter than inside my own grumpsome, turbulent body. What will happen, I wonder? Will the tiny air-con units give up the ghost and cause mass hysteria? Will I involuntarily climb into the fridge? Will I pop?
It’s a worry. Especially […]
If you’re ever crawling in traffic heading west out of London on the A40, then you are in luck. Between Shepherds Bush and Hanger Lane there are no fewer than 23 wireless networks you can latch onto (though we only managed to browse the internet from one of them).
I’ve been terrible at keeping in touch […]
Just to keep things interesting, we’re on the move again - this time to leafy Ealing. We never really planned on staying in SlightlyRubbishFlat(TM) for too long - it was always a stepping stone to somewhere a bit nicer once we’d found our feet. Not that we’ll regret living here - we’ve so enjoyed being […]
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