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This could be interesting. Am en route to Dublin for work today - I love an early flight. The first part of the plan came off ok: the waking up at 6:30 bit. Getting to Victoria station was straightforward. Getting the quarter-hourly Gatwick Express? Am not sure whether it’s Sod’s Law, or comeuppance for my [...]

I’ve been quite enjoying the recent story about the campaign to get some atheist-driven advertising onto the side of London buses.  The nuts & bolts of it being that for many years now non-Christians have had to endure Christian advertisements all over every available surface, and after a comedy writer followed a link at the [...]

As I wandered up Victoria Street back to the office this afternoon, I discovered the trouble with simultaneously being at the tail-end stages of a horrible cold (with the running nose and the ever present sensation that you just might not have applied your hanky correctly), and having a beard that looks like this:

Everyone looks [...]

London - Cafes & Coffee Shops - Juice, Shakes & Smoothies - Restaurants - Fast Food & American
I had great expectations for The Diner in Camden - after keenly watching its transformation from the sticky cesspit known as Arizona Bar - however despite making some fairly clear promises, it fails to deliver.
Everything about the place [...]

Ovation (from The Free Dictionary)

Enthusiastic, prolonged applause.
A show of public homage or welcome.
An ancient Roman victory ceremony of somewhat less importance than a triumph.

Last week, thanks to the eagle-eyed efforts of Paul the Dodgy Aussie, I was priveleged to see the farewell tour of British Comedy Legends French & Saunders - in concert for their [...]

London
The bar upstairs from Ronnie Scott’s (imaginitively named, “Ronnie’s Bar”) was previously Members Only - however all that’s changed now, and it gives the rest of us access to quite a funky little room!
Open nightly from 6pm, or from 9pm for a small fee, you can head up & enjoy groovy tunes from an array [...]

OK, so in an alleged “story” this week (i.e. it’s not proper news, but it’s probably more interesting than hearing about the bloody credit crunch again), London saw the results of the Dirty Hands Study - conducted as part of Global Handwashing Day by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  What the hell [...]

After getting a bit sick of reading about Iceland’s plummeting economic situation in the UK press, I thought I’d have a nose around the Australian newsfeeds for a bit to see what was afoot Down Under.  Refreshingly, the headlines I spotted were:

30 lesbians impregnated by the same man
Food shop infested with rats and pigeons
Oz radio [...]

I’m not very good at being sick. Don’t get the practice, you see.
England’s not a fun place to get sick, as I found out a few years ago during the great morris dancing calf muscle insurance giggle ordeal. This time though instead of forking out 8000 squid for a 90 second appointment, I’d do the [...]

I was just going through my newsfeeds in Google Reader - which I periodically do - to prune them back to a manageable firehose of continuously new information.  I’m subscribed to what I can only describe as a disturbing number of feeds, and from time to time this becomes problematic, as I possess neither the [...]