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I’m a big fan of careering off on illogical adventures at relatively short notice, so when my housemate James asked me about a fortnight ago if I wanted to come to Reykjavik for a free Bjork gig I mightily hit the “YES” button with mahoosive portions of enthusiasm. The first thing to hit me about…
Two things tend to spring to mind when I hear the word “ventriloquist”: 1) the ancient art of making one’s voice appear like it’s coming from somewhere other than where it is. 2) a prat wearing a bow tie systematically and creepily grinning at an audience while the lips move on the puppet up whose…
So there I go telling everyone my blog’s back up & running, and since having done so I haven’t written a bloody sausage. And now’s not the time to start, either. Got to dash to Stansted – I’m off to Iceland for the weekend. That’s the country, not the supermarket.
We had a fire drill this morning – not the regular weekly test of the fire alarm, which seems to serve little purpose other than to train us further into a state of ignoring the sound of the fire alarm. This was a proper drill, complete with building evacuation & appraisal by the man from…
Since I was about 14 I’ve been a keen reader of the English comic/magazine Viz. It’s not the type of journal anyone’s ever going to claim is educational or informative, but it is definitely bloody silly, and that’s perfectly good enough for me. The only reason I really mention it is because I was thumbing…
That poor monkey must be knackered! Ahem, yes, well anyway… here we are again. I must confess, I didn’t expect the “maintenance” to take six months, and to be perfectly honest what has taken place wouldn’t really be accurately summed up as maintenance anyway. It all started when Aaron, the kind lad who has been…
This will be quick because there is a queue behind me in the net cafe and also I have no idea where the apostrophe is found on this crazy keyboard. Happy New Year to all – thanks for all the calls… I was not able to answer all of them as I have spent much…