If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last night, dinner with the ladies. And it was literally just the ladies this time since Sparky was bedded up, ill. So, I wandered down to VNU to meet Kathryn and Ems in reception and bumped into enough familiar […]

Ho-hum. A day of work. We’ve had too many short fortnights lately, with all these office moves, days spent judging and holidays. So, I’ve listened to almost all of my iTunes library (well, the best bits - it’s not that small a library) and a couple of hours of the French 80s station, which seems […]

Not being much of a one for birthdays (in spite of the evidence of last year) I was quite glad only Julian knew about it at work, and he forgot all about it when it finally came around on Friday. So, the only extraordinary thing about the day was the number of people missing from […]

In 17 minutes I’ll be 31. That year’s gone quickly. This time last year I was in Venice, sitting in a square out of sight of a canal (an achievement in itself) drinking a vodka and lemonade. That’s something that’s changed - I can’t stand it with lemonade now and have to have tonic - […]

Well, I saw Jerry Springer: The Opera for the second time last night. Same verdict as first time around: first half very funny, but by the second half the joke was starting to wear a bit thin. Still, it was fun, as it was a PR thing, so everyone was there, and it was preceeded […]

Winter’s drawing in. You can feel it in the air. I spent today sitting in the sun at my dining table, working. It was lovely and warm. But this evening, after a 15-minute demonstration of a bed (yes, really - it even had motors to make it joggle around - very strange to spend 15 […]

Why didn’t they just put a big banner over the door to the cinema: ‘Vote Kerry’. Or at least I assume that’s what The Village is about.
The following contains spoilers.
Without giving away the twist at the end, the plot is a fairly simple alegory on the so-called war on so-called terror. The people of a […]

Well there we go. A whole new kind of fun: talking to anonymous people you don’t know in places you’ve never been to.
I installed Skype this afternoon and dug out my old PC telephone. I’ve not used it in years - not since I did an interview on it on the radio about how it […]

It’s been one of those weeks where everything’s happened at once. Or everything’s needed to happen at once, to be more accurate, but hasn’t always quite done so.
So, Monday morning was another batch of unpacking. This time upstairs on the third floor. If I look out of my window I can see the London Eye […]

I’m stuffed, after an impromptu dinner with Trevor and Jon. Nothing planned - just a spur of the moment outing in the rain, only to find the high street closed. We ended up in the Italian by the bus station where they urinate up the windows while you’re eating.
On the outside, of course - it’s […]