If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just as well I’m paranoid about waking up on press trips. I’ve seen too many journalists miss too many buses not to set a dozen alarms. So, my Handspring was primed to start getting talkative around seven, the telly [...]

What a fascinating dinner. What a fascinating day, in fact. Tonight, though, at dinner in an old orangery in the grounds of where Ewan Blair lives when he’s not collapsing in a drunken stupor in Leicester Square, there was a wide variety of nationalities arranged around our table. One Spanish, one Dutch, one Belgian, one [...]

Hmmm… well, I went with an open mind. I was ready to do my best and let him impress me, but he failed. Don’t get me wrong - I had a great evening, but that’s because of the good company and the fact the free food and drink were flowing from beginning to end.
I [...]

Is there a world record for caffiene intake? If so I think I may have broken it today. After last night’s late working, then late train, then late gym, then late working again when I got home it was well into this morning before I even got to bed. Five and a bit hours later [...]

The BBC is not so keen on the idea of armed sky marshalls on British planes, apparently set to take to the skies with immediate effect:
Frank Taylor, a senior lecturer in air safety, says a bullet destroying an aircraft window in real life would have dire consequences for nearby passengers, as dramatised in Goldfinger.
As air [...]

Porters Bar at lunchtime, for an extended liquid lunch in honour of K’s birthday. Nobody could quite decide whether it had been redecorated, but the dark red walls and bizarre moaning music made it feel like we were drinking in the belly of a whale.
Most unsettling.
That turned out to be the start of an afternoon [...]

My mission for the next two days, should I choose to accept it, is to learn the words to as many Justin Timberlake songs as I can. Hmmm… OK, so it’s not really me. Have never particularly liked his music, but I got a call, late on Friday, inviting me to his concert on Tuesday [...]

Last time we went to Hamleys Emilie wowed us all by jumping out from behind one of the shelves dressed head to toe as an owl, with big brown feathers streaking up from the mask on her face, and a silky brown cape wrapped around her shoulders.
It must have been a popular choice as when [...]

Well, over the last couple of days I’ve heard all of the entries for this year’s Eurovision several times over, which has let me get quite familiar with them. There are a lot of good ones in there, but I think ultimately it’s going to come down to two leaders and then the also-rans. So, [...]

Heiko has pointed to a page that gives away the end of The Matrix: Reloaded. I didn’t realise what I’d read until it was too late, but in among the rather bizarre arguments the author puts forward for not going to see the film, he does reveal one interesting fact I’d not realised:
The filmmakers have [...]