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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 rum sampling…
“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…
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 into…
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…
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 nature of…
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 a…
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 !…