If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well Brussels was v much fun. And I even had Brussels Sprouts, which was appropriate. They arrived disguised as an ingredient in a middle-eastern wheat and lentil dish, so I’m not entirely sure they were authentic, although they were […]

Of all the nights I could have done with a good journey home, this was the one. I have to be up at 4am tomorrow to catch the Eurostar to Brussels, so arriving at Liverpool Street this evening to find a red strip of delayed signs across the departures board, and not a single train […]

Just how desperate are the mobile networks to keep you on their books?
I rang up to cancel my phone on Friday. ‘Oh, no, don’t do that,’ they said. ‘Let us put you on a lovely new tariff. How does

I met Will for lunch at the cafe in Russell Square. It came highly recommended and lived up to expectations. Walking back to the office, I passed a squirrel sitting upright in one of the flower beds that line the edge of the square. It had its little fists balled up and it stared at […]

Winter is starting to bite. We drove over to Galleywood for dinner last night, and it was already minus numbers before we set off. By the time we left, full of good stilton and baked potatoes the roads were covered in a dusty silver grit that sparkled in the car headlamps and made the tyres […]

They say weather is a British obsession, and certainly it’s become that at home since we installed a weather station at the end of the garden. Now we have up to the minute read-outs on the wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, height of the clouds, dew point, wind chill and all manner of other […]

You couldn’t hope for a better cast than we find in The Wrong Arm of the Law: Peter Sellers, John Le Messurier, Bernard Cribbins, Nanette Newman… It’s a snapshot of British cinema, 1962.
The premise is simple, yet clever. Three conmen, newly arrived from Australia, are moving in on the territory of London’s two biggest gangs; […]

Hmmm… Monday already. somewhere back there there was a weekend. Let’s think… Saturday morning, I worked, which was OK because it was interesting stuff and I had a good reason to stop at lunchtime: Phil was coming over.
We’ve not seen each other for… two years, I’d guess. At least. But we’ve always left long gaps […]

Rosie ably demonstrated last night what I would look like if I had more hair.

I think the slightly thinning naturat state is more suited.We were at the Porterhouse Bar in Covent Garden for Luke’s birthday and Rory’s leaving do. Rory was the last person I interviewed when I was at PCW and he’s already done […]

Sitting in the conservatory having breakfast this morning, I looked out down the garden and watched a squirrel on one of the bird feeders.
An hour later it was still there, so I went upstairs to get my camera, and leant out the window to take a picture. Except from up there, and through a decent […]