If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I don’t know what proportion of Irish to non-Irish residents London has, but St Patrick’s Day seems like a good excuse for going out and having fun regardless of your nationality. Even as early as lunchtime the streets were […]

Ooh, a nice day, topped off by a rebate from the tax man waiting on the doormat as I arrived home tonight. I could do with some more of them.
I also got my iPod back, having sent it off for repair less than a week ago. Considering it was dispatched to the land of windmills […]

Well, from a ‘feeling good about yourself’ point of view, this weekend has been a good one. It’s the first time in ages I’ve been to the gym on two consecutive days, and for the first time in more weeks than I’d care to remember I had a good session at adding words to the […]

I would like to coin a new expression: writer’s blog.
Effectively the opposite of writer’s block, it’s a noun to describe the phenomenon where you’re doing so much writing you have no time to blog on a regular basis.
It’s been a busy week. Tuesday I ended up working from 8am until eleven that night, got home […]

The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him.
It’s perhaps best summed up by the viewer commends on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB):
Dick has the smallest penis on the planet. At full length his erection only reaches one tenth of a milimeter, flacid its under one hundredth… One […]

Well, the antisocial trains are getting very familiar at the moment. It’s 10.30ish. In the evening. I’ve been here since half eight this morning and, the way things are going it looks like I could be here another half hour.
When you get past a certain time, and there are a few of you still around […]

It’s never a good idea to leave films too long before you watch them. Especially not when everyone else has been ranting on about them for a year.
So, Finding Nemo. Very clever. Very well done. Very beautiful in places, but… well, unfulfilling. I think I expected too much, and more than once I got the […]

I think I met my first ethical estate agent today. In fact, I think I’ve met him before because I’m pretty sure he was the one who sold me my flat five and a bit years ago, although he showed no sign of having seen it before when he came around to size it up […]

Well, the invites are getting stranger by the day. Today, an offer of a week being taught how to ski. The only stipulation: that you’ve never skied before. No meetings, no briefings, nothing being launched. In fact, it wasn’t even an invite from a computer company, and they knew full well what the magazine was […]

Pancake parties. Minefields of innuendo.
To: All
Date: Tuesday 2 March 2004 11:59
Subject: Pancake party
Good to see you all on Sunday.
Hope your wrists aren’t too tired from some spectacular tossing, and some dreadful messes!
Our back door key (on a BMW key ring, a metal BMW badge on a rectangular leather flap) seems to have vanished from it’s […]