I recently moved to Finsbury Park, and luckily the weekends have been nice enough to afford drinking tea outside on our teeny teeny little roof terrace thingy. Tea good. Victoria line being off is a slight nuisance though, and it causes all kinds of woe when people want brave the tube and come round to [...]
What’s brown and sticky? A stick. Oh, and also British music festivals in the summer. Aah Glastonbury and the British weather. You can’t beat it. So some aspects of this year’s festival were no better than my last experience: planning and successfully executing toilet trips was a thankless task; the food ranged from the sublime [...]
When I were a lad, before TFT monitors and widespread broadband, I was a till boy for a well known and avoided high-street retailer. It was a happy time. I wore a stylish red badge and winsome pastel green tie to work. The smokers’ staffroom was nicotine yellow. Occasionally I cleaned shelves. I wrote a [...]
Having spent a couple of days visiting Sheffield and Wrexham, I have returned with: A beef and mustard sandwich A Sega Mega Drive in original box with one controller and Sonic The Hedgehog A 61-key Yamaha keyboard A midi hifi system from the shallow depths of 1999 with two(!) tape decks, minidisc *and* three CD [...]
Some notes on my trip to California: Stranger than Sherrybaby So I was watching Stranger Than Fiction on the trip to LAX, and getting quite engrossed in the lightweight story about Harold Crick (played by the affable Will Ferrell) and his love interest Ana Pascal (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) when all of a sudden, Ana [...]
Americans replace their toothbrushes on average only 1.9 times per year. Grim. But how often do they go out of town, even for a day or two? Forgetting your toothbrush and having being forced to buy a new one might end up solving all sorts of problems to do with plaque nasties. Just a post-travel, [...]
In a little under two weeks, I’ll be flying the furthest I’ve ever flown in my life: to San Diego and Los Angeles, spending roughly a week or so in each. First I’ll be attending ETech , attempting to expand my mind with some wholesome thought food, and then I’ll be taking over a sofa [...]
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 [...]
Following a week under blazing mediterranean sun I have acquired no less than 6 brand spanking new freckles in a sea of red (and soon to be peely) skin. I’ve a marginally rested head full of mental images of clear seas and silliness – some of which I captured for perusal on the ever-mighty flickr. [...]
Off to Croatia to explore some Dalmatian spots. Back in a week or so.
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