If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s been an awkward week, not helped by arriving at work on Wednesday morning to find a dead PowerBook on my desk. Locked inside it was all of my work: features, reviews, emails, budgets, spreadsheets. The lot. It looked […]

Dave has done very well, so we made a big poster for the office to commemorate.

See how much he likes it.

It’s all in the eyes.

We are currently very busy.

There was a party at the Gibson Guitar peoples’ place tonight. I know very little about guitars, of the Gibson variety or any other, but that was apparently quite a ‘cool thing’. So there you go.
Lots of music, all of which was live and far too loud, proving once and for all that I am […]

Let all the world know that Tim Danton is a thief of other peoples’ bread from the communal kitchen.
Today he was off work.
So we made sure that there was plenty of bread for him on his desk ready for morning.

David Fearon got caught in the act.

…but we did make sure there was a nice clean […]

Since when did libraries get so noisy? I walked into Chelmsford today to look up some bits and bobs for the backstory of the book, took my iBook along with me and planned on spending the afternoon patching up the gaps in my outline.
It started well, but then in came these obnoxious girls with mobile […]

Wandering though Foyles book store at lunchtime, I came across this book. Totally genuine, entirely straight-faced, it appears to be a how-to manual for anyone who wants to stage an armed takeover of their country. Not the kind of thing you expect to find just around the corner from how to tone your thighs, and […]

I met up with the ladies tonight - Emilie Ems and Kathryn K - and we tubed up to Primrose Hill to celebrity spot in Trojka.
What a fab little find. Apparently it’s generally dripping with the likes of Jude Law, Emma Thompson and co, but after we’d stopped off for drinks in a pub by […]

Every so often I get an email from someone who edits the letters page of a daily newspaper. I’m going to mention no names. Usually it appears in the middle of the night, and it marks the start of a series of tiny revisions that I find quite fascinating.
When I’m editing the letters for the […]