If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here’s a groovy idea, linked by Alex Singleton, who popped up out of nowhere last night and pointed at his site, which in turn points us towards: Tax Freedom Day.
It’s a simple idea: instead of working out how much […]

Dad’s here. I picked him up from amid the delayed crowds at Liverpool Street and we squeezed ourselves onto a packed train. With hot and bothered commuters squeezed into every crevice, we crept through the suburbs as though afraid to wake the driver.
After that we didn’t much feel like going out, so gave into […]

About six months ago, London Transport stopped saying the tubes were running to time, and instead said they were running a ‘good service’. These two words cover a wide gamut of running conditions from perfect to… well, tonight’s debacle.
Over an hour to travel five stops. And even then it was only because I gave up […]

One window, one wall, one projector. One massive free MacUser advert.

After a day working on various words, up to London for Will’s “This is not a stag do”. Of course it was a stag do - kind of - as it’s inextricably linked to getting married, but without the obligatory tying him to a lamp-post and smearing him in honey, I guess at the same […]

Excuse me if I look a bit green this morning. Last night was the PC Pro Awards so my head is bleating gently. Add to that not much sleep and you can see why I don’t feel like doing much writing this morning.
So, I dug out the tux, bought a new pair of black shoes […]

Travel has been miserable these last few days. Rain and delays, basically, since the start of the week.
Last night I let Chris of the Brennan talk me into getting on to the Central Line early enough for it to still be rammed.
The platforms were packed and the next trains weren’t for another four, 11 and […]

I’m hooked on this 1920s cookery book now. I’ve got to page 176: Vegetarian dishes. My favourite all-time vegetarian dish has to be Susprise Potatoes. What a fantastic surprise.

We had Mike and Ursula and little baby Jacob around for lunch today, but didn’t surprise them with anything so inappropriate. I’m getting the hang of this […]

Gordon’s book is out and it’s selling very well. It was 127th best-selling book on the whole of Amazon a couple of days ago. It’s hovering around the 300ish point which, when you consider how many thousands of books Amazon sells is pretty good.
To put it in context, the latest Harry Potter is only the […]

Pete, who may or may not contain peanuts (nobody’s quite sure) commented thus on the last but one entry:
‘The recipe for brain sauce (page 196) please. I’m sure it would be thoroughly delectable.’
Sadly, it’s rather predictable. It comes just before Brandy Sauce and Bread Sauce, both of which I’d far rather eat, and is made […]