If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well, Transylvania to be precise, but Bucharest for the first few days of the week and, by tomorrow, a little town on the Hungarian border. For the moment, though, I’m enjoying the high life in the Romanian Alps, where […]

Hello. Have I really been gone so long? The last entry on this thing was a week and six days ago, which was the last time I logged on to the net and, you know what, I haven’t missed it at all.
So, what’s happened in the interim? Well, last week started in Paris for Apple […]

It’s autumn. Officially(ish). Which means you get some great sunsets out in the countruside. The hedgerows are also bursting with food. On a short walk this evening, beside the regular crab apples, mushrooms and edible fungus, and the flowers I couldn’t identify, there was all manner of edible berries ready for picking…
Elderberries, which go well […]

Rubbish tubes last night, so I ended up walking from Kings Cross to Liverpool Street, having already sat in a tunnel for the best part of half an hour.
Before I did, though, I decided to hunt out platform nine and three quarters, which rather illogically turns out to be between platforms 8 and 9b, so […]

Rather predictably, fixing the break-in yesterday morning took far longer than I’d hoped. I was on to the insurance as soon as the phone lines opened, and the bored sounding woman on the other end told me the earliest they could ever hope to get the car fixed was Friday lunchtime. Over two days away. […]

…taken last night.

…taken last night.

…that if you’re going out, you shouldn’t be good. Leave the car at home and get drunk instead.
Kathryn, Ems and I went out Geocaching. It wasn’t entirely successful: we forgot to take any treasure to deposit, so had to detour via American Retro so we could poke through the gadgets and widgets and buy one […]

The Transport Security Administration oversees safety in the American skies and maintains a list of items you can and cannot take on a plane in the USA. It’s so illogical.
Permitted items include
Screwdrivers up to 7in long
Scissors up to 4in long
Up to four books of matches
Nitroglycerine sprays (up to 4oz)
Knitting and crochet needles
Corkscrews
Forbidden items include
Duty free […]

There are plenty of Stingray-inspired puns floating around today in the aftermath of Steve Irwin’s death by stingray sting.
Is the BBC is going one step further to show the event itself, or just incautious with its buttons and words?