If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I should have spent more of today out in the garden, but apart from two hours sat drinking tea in the sun with mum I have spent most of the day inside either packing, or reading about the places […]

Barbara has been mauled by a Tiger. She didn’t come off very well.
Finally, today, after months of speculation and waiting, Apple released Tiger, so I wandered down to the Store with Keith to see what happened at six when it was set for launch. As we suspected, they’d closed it up, but what we hadn’t […]

Just in time for holiday, I’m starting with a cold. I’m fighting back with Berocca, but it seems quite insistent.
If the old wives’ tale about going out in the cold and wet had a shred of truth to it, I’d blame it on the weather, which really can’t decide what it wants to do. Got […]

Quite a busy few days, actually.
It started on Thursday, which feels like an age ago now. Drinks and nibs at the Glassblower, which I’d not been to for… oh, I don’t know, probably five years. Not since the fateful night when we all went there for Lorraine’s birthday, but she went to the Glasshouse Stores […]

There was a time when Ireland won about three Eurovisions in a row, and there was talk of it being on the verge of bankrupting RTE, the national broadcaster. How times have changed. This year’s entry from Donna and Joseph is abysmal. Really, really bad. So bad, in fact, that I don’t even think it […]

I am actually quite speechless after reading this story on the BBC News site about the BNP’s election manifesto, which includes:
Mr Griffin also wants the reintroduction of national service and said everyone who had undergone it should be required to keep a modern assault rifle at home.
“It’s there to shoot burglars with if they want, […]

Since they announced Casino Royale would be the next Bond film, I decided I ought to read it. The films and books usually don’t correlate all that closely, but I was interested to see what might be in store on the offchance they really do keep to their word and take it back to traditional […]

It took almost four hours to watch all 39 entries. No wonder they split them up into two halves. There’s only about three or four real trashy entries. Notably Portugal, Belgium and Monaco, which were particularly bad, and respectively polled only five, two and two points out of twenty.
So, our winners, and our tips for […]

Either this sunshine stops - now - or we have a hosepipe ban this summer. It’s your choice. I don’t care either way, but you can’t have both. So. What’s it going to be?
I’m just on my way out, actually - off to have lunch with Mark and watch this year’s Eurovision preview tape. Of […]

I do love Paris. It gets better every time. I could happily live there. Maybe not forever, but a year of teaching English is very appealing.
We took the Eurostar, first class, leaving late like I have done the last three times I’ve used it, and ate a fantastic lunch. It’s so much better than flying. […]