If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I read the electric meter, had one last look around the empty echoey rooms and then dropped my keys through the letterbox tonight, as I finally said goodbye to the flat.
Funny, isn’t it, how you can go through months […]

You can tell a lot about who reads a paper (or magazine) from its letters page. Here’s a snippet of truly extraordinary logic from last night’s London Lite mobile mailbox, on the gay adoption furore currently grabbing headlines.

I’ve only ever been to the NFT before to use the bar. That’s a terrible admission, isn’t it. Anyhow, this evening that was rectified, as Rich had spotted an ‘audience with’ night at the Turntable Cafe on the subject of Watch With Mother, that once-great British institution that saw programmes made specifically for parents (female […]

Something nasty has happened to our water at home, and now it has a yucky plastic taste like it’s been laminated. Sometimes it comes out of the tap milky white, sometimes clear, and you never really know what your tea is going to taste like until you’ve made it, sipped it and poured it away […]

It’s quarter past two, and we’re all back home for lunch in the middle of moving my remaining stuff out of the flat. I didn’t think there was still much there, but once you get into deconstructing furniture, bubble-wrapping glass table tops, unscrewing iron bedsteads and the like, you quickly end up with a scrap-like […]

You can tell it’s getting cold and food is getting scarce. The foxes usually stay down at the end of the field, but this one came out to check the squirrels this morning, and sat on the stump at the end of the garden, giving us a much closer look than normal.
Again, sorry for the […]

Pride comes before the fall, they say, so it’s probably only right that I slipped over this morning and fell flat on my back. I had, after all, been quite proud of getting around that ice rink last night without doing just that. It wouldn’t have been so embarassing if I hadn’t done it in […]

My goal for the night was not to fall over on the ice at Somerset House. This is much more easily achieved if you’re not trying to skate on it. But that’s precisely what I was doing.
In the event I actually did much better than simply not fall over - I managed two whole laps […]

We’ve caught a bad case of man flu here at nik.co.uk. Not the site author (touch wood), but the site itself. Somehow, at some point over the weekend, about a year and a half’s worth of photos disappeared from the archives. So did the templates and most of the plug-ins that help it do whizzy […]

London is windy. London is very windy. They’re running one train an hour down my train line, rather than one every ten minutes. I walked through Bloomsbury Square at lunchtime and a tree had blown down in the gale. This thing was a monster - easily 50 feet tall - and yet there it was, […]