If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I lost track of time today. Quite literally. My watch sent itself on a mystery tour and hid on top of my freezer, hunkered down beneath my old Mac monitor that never gets used.
I don’t know how it got […]

It was inevitable we’d be late. We always are. We were due at Sal and Dan’s by six but after wrapping Dan’s birthday presents and making a detour by way of Sainsburys for some Quorn to put on the barbeque it was closer to seven when we arrived.

By then, the sun had come out after […]

I feel very righteous for getting up at a decent time and being at the gym before most of Chelmsford was even awake. It didn’t feel so good at the time - my legs were still asleep and came slowly to life on the treadmill. Early Saturday morning is a good time to go as […]

In the light of yesterday’s fantastic weather, I spent today being the first one in the office in shorts this year. Shame the weathe didn’t hold out, but then I guess that was inevitable. I did get away with not taking a coat, though, which was a bonus.
It’s time to start thinking about the next […]

Today is summer. Tomorrow will start off nice but according to Chris the Midnight Weatherman it’s going to rain later in the afternoon. Perhaps even thunder.
Summer will be over.
While it lasted, though, it was fantastic. Very hot and very bright. Mark and I lay on the grass in Soho Square at lunchtime and I drifted […]

After the fatal crash in Potters Bar last weekend I feel a bit bad complaining about the trains, but I had travel hell this morning. I got to Highbury and Islington and could barely get on the platform it was so full, then couldn’t even get close to the train when it arrived. It left […]

The Oxford Street Megastore has been rearranged. It’s now so confusing I got lost in there twice today. Once before work, once at lunchtime, hunting for a birthday present. I gave up in the end and went to HMV where I was tempted by the stack of Electric at the door.
I was determined to be […]

Searching for wonky paving pics through Google brings up my site as the first hit… for some reason.
Elsewhere on the net, the International Herald Tribune ran a fantastic story today about Nasa trying to buy 20-year old processors and 8in disks on eBay. Apparently they are key to keeping the Space Shuttle fleet running.
When the […]

Every plane out of Edinburgh was delayed on Thursday. At least while I was there that’s the way it seemed. An increasingly irritated voice called for the last two passengers on every flight to come forward. Their bags were always being unloaded, and they were always delaying takeoff.
Our flight to the Outer Hebridies was delayed, […]

Kylie was fantastic. Easily the best concert I have ever seen. Everyone agreed, too. So loud. So much energy. So many costume changes. So many fantastic dancers and acrobats.
I left work at three so that I could get across to Bayswater to check into the hotel I’d booked for the night and then back to […]