If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Very nice parcel in the post this morning from a newly rebranded company that things barbecue crisps, a dictionary, a CD holder and a

It’s interesting reading the foreign media to see what image the rest of the world has of the UK. Doubly so when that image is itself painted by a Briton who clearly didn’t expect it to be read back home. I have seen just one Union Flag, and although The Edge on Soho Square has […]

Some interesting facts that came out of Microsoft this morning:
The average office worker’s desk has 15 metres of cabling running across it. End to end, this is the equivalent length of one and a half double-decker buses. 8% of Britons spill a drink at least once a week because of the cables on their desk. […]

Baggy eyes. The windows are locked tightly shut, but the things that scream in the meadow wake me. They are being eaten by the foxes. Every night, just gone one. So is it the foxes or their meals that wake me?
It’s not been a good day, generally. Very, very busy, with a very technical hour-long […]

From this morning’s Metro:
AMERICA: Park officials have come up with an ingenious solution to the perennial problem of dog fouling - smearing peanut butter on the droppings. They hope the dogs will start licking the peanut butter and, when they return home, lick the faces of their owners. The authorities in Anchorage, Alaska, believe pet […]

Mark’s traditional Eurovision party last night - an annual event where we are each assigned a country and make our way to his house with food from that nation to cheer the contest on. I took Danish pastries - far too many of them - to represent Denmark. Ja did chips for the UK. Mark […]

It’s not just because I’m fiercely protective of my work that I have a copyright notice on my site. It’s also because if things like photos and text get used without permission, or in the wrong place, it can all get horribly expensive.
To cut a very long story short and remove the more gruesome details, […]

A very good trail in the breakfast show this morning, spoilt only slightly by the fact that the studio couldn’t get through to my ISDN box for some reason. Still, we reverted to the phone and it was chatty and consise, with just enough time to get the message across in the run up to […]

Wollen sie essen met mir heute abent kommen.
Hmmm… It might be a bit too phonetic to work on screen and I seriously doubt my grammar, but after 25 minutes of study on the train this morning I feel rather smug about being able to ask someone to dinner in German. What we’d talk about when […]

I have worn the pants of punctuality all day today. I was up in time to get to the gym before the train in to work so arrived at the office springy and feeling very ready to get on with the day. So much so, in fact, that I even started writing a feature that […]