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Had my first ever trip to the opera on Saturday night. Hannah and Catrin (both looking a million dollars) accompanied me to the Royal Albert Hall for my maiden operatic voyage. Despite feeling a little seedy from a 4am poker game and impromptu creative writing session with the new housemates, and a mid-afternoon [...]

“What a silly, boring little man. His only function is to let you know what Harry Potter's going to look like when he's old.” - Billy Connolly on Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

That'd be just about bloody right…
Last night, I wandered down Brick Lane to go to February's Dorkbot meeting - always an interesting night, if only slightly (read: INCREDIBLY) geeky. On the way I wandered past a red carpet setup and a bunch of punters corralled behind a metal barrier, along with some paparazzi snapping [...]

If, in Feb 2001 you'd asked me, “Where do you see yourself in 5 years' time?”, I can guarantee you my answer would NOT have been “Snowboarding in the Austrian Alps”.
In short though, I'm having a wicked time, my muscles hurt like hell (and I thought kickboxing was a tough workout!), but it's going really [...]

Part 1 of the move went OK - totally huge thanks to HC, Gary, Emzo, Richie, Craig & Kate, and no particular thanks to Alex, who's been about as useful as a chocolate teapot in this entire procedure. At present half my stuff's here at Richie's, half's at Craig and Kate's, and I move [...]

In the kitchen at work somebody's just put up a flyer for “Work Your Proper Hours Day” - the philosophy behind it is that they're encouraging everyone on February 24th to actually work their proper hours, rather than cutting their lunchbreak and/or working late.
The basis for this is that in England there's apparently 5 million [...]

So I guess this'll be my last ever blog from 51 Mornington Street, Camden Town, NW1 7QB - laregly on account of how I move out tomorrow morning.
Now's not the time for retrospectives and soforth - I'll get to that when I have a spare moment (July's looking good at this stage). Interesting though [...]

Bloody hell, touched a nerve there I think ! However in my haste to pontificate I forgot three other key subgroups…
Pushers: Pushers are primarily an above-ground phenomenon, and one which gets my blood boiling every time. They're the ones with prams/strollers/pushers/general baby wheelbarrow fixture, and they're customarily crossing roads. Because of the [...]

This country just gets harder and harder to consider leaving, I tells ya !
Thanks to the innovative folk at BT, no longer are text messages purely the province of the technorati-mobile-phone-possessing-set ! Now luddites with just their home phones can receive the little 160 character long bundles of goodness too. “But how can [...]

Almost forgot.
I've been meaning to send this for a few weeks now, but anyway: in one of the lifts out of the Mornington Crescent tube station they've got a (somewhat dated) poster advertising a holiday show that was on last July. But the puzzling part is the image they've used to promote it !

Seriously, [...]