If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Christmas cards I’ve received at work this year have ranged from very good to downright terrible. The worst, by far, was from a peripheral manufacturer that did no more than slap its logo on the front of a […]

Mist among the trees in Thetford Forest.

From a Monday afternoon of mist and wet feet in Thetford Forest.

It’s Saturday evening. The end of a long week. I’ve just got in from Chelmsford, where I took some sadistic and perverse delight in walking among the frantic shoppers, safe in the knowledge that with all of my shopping done I could just enjoy the lights, music and smells of the market stalls.
And so here […]

So we chose La Trouvaille for our Christmas lunch this year. None of us had been before, so we took it on the strength of recommendations alone. The food was fantastic.
I had the fish pie, while the meaties among us picked from venison, pheasant and partridge, all beautifully presented. The restaurant itself is a lovely […]

My Christmas shopping is officially finished. Let’s celebrate with this picture of Rich’s Christmas lights.

I’m selling my flat. It’s all but done and dusted, which means my post right now is an endless stream of questions and demands from either my or the buyer’s solicitors. Today, then, I’m filling out a tick form about the rights and overriding interests that have a bearing on the property.
So, in my first […]

Lunch today with a broadband-cum-TV-cum-phone provider. At Ping Pong again where, last time, I accidentally ate three pieces of chicken and this time, rather predictably, I’d bitten into a piece of chicken before I realised what it was. Ugh.
Anyhow, as we walked in and did all the necessary hand-shaking requirements, our PR bill-payer said he […]

If there’s one party everyone wants to attend, it’s Canon’s Christmas bash. Pity any other company that tries to host its do on the same night.
So, what do we remember of the night? Well, there was Chris of the P spilling a full glass of champagne on my jeans and me doing the same on […]

I like press releases full of stats lists. Yesterday’s came from Hotmail, which is celebrating its 10th birthday by sending is an iced cookie the size of a manhole cover, and the news that:
In 1996, 56,041 people signed up for the first Hotmail accounts, roughly the size of Taunton in Somerset.
1 billion emails are […]