If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Mr Sparrow seems to be regularly loggin on to see what I’m writing about the trip. He strenuously denies that he’s looking to see what I’ve written about him, but I think the lady doth protest too much. So, […]

This place really is opulent. I was accosted by a peacock on the way to breakfast. The hidden speakers buried in all the lawns were playing the theme music to Dynasty at the time. It seemed strangely fitting.
Actally, to say I was accosted is a slight exaggeration. More accurately, we just stood there staring at […]

We all had a pretty fab time in Leeds, by my reckoning, and despite the fact we spend every Monday to Friday together it was fun spending a weekend with the rest of the team.
We were all staying in the same hotel - the hotel in which the wedding was taking place - so it […]

Well there we go. That was my last day in the office for a week. And after a week and a bit of fantastic weather, the good run finally broke, and I ended up walking home in the pouring rain. Fortunately I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, so I didn’t find myself riding the […]

There are just so many things wrong with this plan, it’s difficult to know where to start. Apart from the most obvious point, which I posted yesterday, where pricing people off the roads and onto the trains, then off the trains and onto the roads again will just lead to a massive escalation of prices, […]

Four mornings out of five each week, it is impossible to get on at least one train from Chelmsford to London. It’ll be so full you just have to let it go and catch the next one.
Now, though, the rail companies want to introduce Congestion Charging for using the busiest trains. As the Times reports,
The […]

Poor Valentine Victor Wear died, aged one, in 1893. Lumbered with an unfortunate name, which made him sound like designer clothing only ever worn in February, it didn’t help that his parents described him as ’safely folded’.

Derek’s leaving cake took a lot of choosing, but it’s amazing what you can find online. And no, it didn’t taste of licorice, which was somewhat surprising. It was sort of non-descript sugary icing, all held together with chocolate butter cream. I’m not sure what the wanking man tasted of, or what kind of cream […]

I’m a big fan of Skype. It works well, does just what it says it should, is dead easy, and means you can talk to your friends for free. But… hmmmm.
I got quite excited when it let you register real phone numbers so that people could call you from regular landlines, and quickly snapped up […]