If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’d been warned that today would be fairly horrible, on account of the fact we were to be locked in a room - staff and freelance alike - and not allowed out until we’d come up with a list [...]

More box packing. It is two months since we last moved office, so I suppose it’s only fair that we move again. It means we lose our view through the big windows, but I’ll be glad to get away from the air-con vent.
So, boxes filled we headed out to the Sea Gallery in Clerkenwell (no [...]

According to a story in this morning’s edition of The Guardian, French police have discovered a series of tunnels, apparently still in use, practically right under the Eiffel Tower.
Climbing down into a drain they found a desk, a closed circuit video camera and some rudimentary security designed to scare people off, and then…
Further along, the [...]

The flat next door is up for sale for lots of money. Which is a disgrace, really, because it’s identical to mine, only back to front, and in no way worth that much. Then again, there’s another one over the road - again the same - and that one’s on for

Hmmm… it’s eleven. I started to write this at eight. Then made dinner, did two loads of washing and got into filling in mortgage applications online before spotting that three hours had passed.
I had started to write it in French, kind of inspired by all those French people who write their blogs in English (or [...]

I got led very astray last night. I agreed to go out for a drink - ONE drink - because Kirsty was down for two days. We’d already all been out for lunch, but at six the five of us traipsed across the road to the King and Queen and requisitioned a table outside in [...]