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It has been a glutinous weekend. Dad arrived on Friday. As usual, I met him at Starbucks at Liverpool Street and we took an invariably delayed train back to Chelmsford. That was our […]

The Guardian is reporting on a story in the Sun that Daniel Craig has been picked as the new Bond.
Hmmm… Well, at least it’s not Clive Owen, who apparently turned it down because it would have limited his career. Isn’t it time to stop making them, though? They’ve done 20 and they’ve lasted 40 years. […]

We booked flights to Venice at the weekend. The plan is to stay there one night at the beginning of May, then travel by train to Ljubljana, then Zagreb and on to Budapest.
I’ve always wanted to see Ljubljana, as I’ve been told it is very beautiful, but this trip does entail countries, four currencies and […]

Tony Blair calls UK election, announces the BBC. Well, we all knew it was coming. What’s worrying, though, is this part of the story:
Four opinion polls published on Tuesday suggest Labour’s lead over the Tories has slipped to between 2% and 5%. They suggest the Lib Dems trail the Tories by between 10 and 16 […]

The monthly round-up of books of the month is a few days late, and as I’ve not finished the last of them also a few days early. I have a good excuse: I switched back to doing French on the train after a few months off, so I’m stranded 40 pages from the end of […]

We watched the second episode of Dr Who on Saturday night, between finishing dinner and the Pope dying, which kept us from going out.
It wasn’t as bad as the first one, certainly, but it was still somehow very unsatisfying. It comes down to two things, I think:
1. Christopher Eccleston is a terrible Dr Who. I […]

It’s such a lovely day today. The sun is blazing, and all you can hear is the far-off sounds of neighbours chattering beyond their fences.
I have binned the agents letting my flat. They are taking a dog’s age to sort out getting me a tennant and as I passed the six-month anniversary of not living […]

It is two hours since the Pope died and the news channels are going mad. Most impressive of all, though, is the fact that his entry on the Wikipedia has already been updated with 706 words about his death, the process for the election of his replacement, the likely successors and reaction from around the […]

March went out on a high. Orange was launching its new online music service (download a track and then remix it on your mobile) so was throwing a party over at Koko in Camden. Well, Mornington Crescent, actually, but it’s a place with pretensions.
I met Kathryn and Emilie Ems at Tottenham Court Road, and we […]