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Fine food, flavoursome wines, exquisite company, jazz, whisky and taxidermy – all were elements of my 30th birthday feast, and each one critical! Except perhaps the taxidermy. In the evening summer sun on Wednesday night I strolled leisurely from the office along Buckingham Palace Road and fended off the culinary wiles of the Cornish Pasty…
Wow, this is the oldest I've ever been. As the guests of our Irish colleagues, my workmate Paul & I spent the evening in the hotel bar of the Rubens Hotel – a place I highly recommend visiting if you ever have the time, inclination & budget. Now it's not often I wax lyrical about…
Somehow it seems that all's right in the world when I know that from the bus stop outside my work I can catch buses to Strood, Hoo, Cuxton, the Isle of Grain, and my personal favourite, Snodland. Backing up this theory, there was a story on Ananova today where a roofer in Germany was mistaken…
Always a privelege to buy 4 bottles of whisky on a weekend, even if you give some away as presents. In the process of trying to source a bottle of GlenGoyne however I stumbled across The Vintage House – possibly the largest single assembly of whisky I've ever been in the presence of ! Whilst…
You'd almost get the impression I was having a good time at the minute, wouldn't you ? (Before I get too far into this, it looks as if my site's broken at the moment if you try to get into it via www.jasonbstanding.com – one of the hamsters exploded and things aren't quite running as…
Bit of morris dancing in front of Westminster Abbey… A spot of Tai Chi Chu'an… A trip up to Northampton for a relaxing summer pint or 5 with the structurally magnificent Amy… A housewarming party which cranked on til 3am… A late pub breakfast and a trip to Regent's Park Open Air Theatre to see…
One of the things I love most about this city is the sheer variety of gigs, concerts, shows, performances, recitations, displays, exhibitions, and other incarnations of talent that you are exposed to, and as some of you will no doubt have noticed I like to take advantage of these things from time to time. It…
It's not exactly a secret that I find the almost obsessive viewing of football games to be nothing short of ridiculous, and so you can imagine how excited I was to receive the following email just a minute ago… Dear colleagues As the world cup approaches we thought you'd appreciate some guidance on how we'd…
On the strength of a recommendation from Brian (and lots of latent worship from McJimbo) I bought a ticket to the Zappa Plays Zappa gig at the Albert Hall on Friday night. Bloody glad I did too – what a great gig ! The tone of the evening I think was set by the second…