If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I went to see this one with an entirely open mind. Apart from the first two paragraphs of a review tacked up on the wall of the cinema foyer, I deliberately, staunchly refused to read anything about it, as […]

Litres of paint spread on the walls: 15
New lampshades bought and fitted: 3
Hours of Radio 4 consumed: 27
Number of times a presenter has almost induced a brush-flung-at-radio incident: 8
Cheese and Onion pasties eaten: 3
…and quiches: 1
…biscuits: 25
Cups of tea drunk: 17
…and coffee: 8
…blackcurrant and apple juice: 2
Paintbrushes ruined: 4
Rollers rolled: 2
Thumbs sliced open: 1
Walls painted: […]

I went back to my old life today for the first time in over a year. My tenants, you see, moved out last week, after 12 months of renting my flat. So I’ve decided to sell up. I was up before the crows and out buying paint and brushes and dust sheets and rollers and, […]

Yesterday. Vinopolis. We’re standing around quaffing, waiting for the event to start. Champagne on tables, sausages on plates being carried around by the waiters.
9.20
Waiter: Prawn?
Natasha: No thank you.
Waiter: Why not? I didn’t cook them, you know.
10.15
Waiter: Sausage?
Nik: No thanks. I don’t eat meat.
Waiter: Why not? How can you not eat meat? I couldn’t live without […]

Here’s a bit of desperate marketing from KitKat. The idea is that you fill your mug with tea and slip a KitKat bar into the specially-shaped chiselled slot in the bottom. Why? So the hot tea can melt the chocolate and you can enjoy the confectionery equivalent of a tuna melt.
Except in reality, all that […]

I’ve not had any spam for weeks. Now normally that would be a good thing - nobody likes spam - but it does make you wonder what else isn’t turning up.
So, today I switched hosting companies. Not entirely hitch-free, since they emailed the login details to the new account, which meant that to access them […]

Dad was in London this weekend, leaving Provence in the supposedly safe hands of the French. So, we arranged to meet for brunch; something we used to do about 20 years ago. I can’t believe it was two decades back. I was still at school, and probably grumpy about having to get dressed up smart […]

The BBC is making a programme about the British Museum called, unsurprisingly, The British Museum. There’s been a board at the museum’s Montague Street entrance announcing the fact for some months now, probably so you’re not surprised to wander around a corner and see a mummy sprout a boom mic.
They emailed me a couple of […]

Humour? Advice? Inspiration? They print a lot on the side of your morning coffee these days.

Is the BBC posting subliminal messages on its web site?