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In a followup to my story on keyboard/hand hygiene, I’ve been noting with growing concern the state of my office keyboard, and idly musing to myself “Hmm, I must do something about that”. As with many office drones in this day and age, my Lunch Hour typically consists of running downstairs to the nearest sandwich…
As hinted previously in this blog, in February there are awards ceremonies to be found other than those centred around the US Film Industry. In this particular case, I’m talking about the Chortle Awards – awarded by UK Comedy portal Chortle.co.uk & sponsored by Fremantle Media – and as hoped by the staff here at…
Unexpectedly ended up as the guest of The Puzzler at last night’s sold out Chris Cornell gig at Scala. I was vaguely aware of Cornell’s rock pedigree, although didn’t specifically know much, and so it was one of these “feel your way as you go” kind of gigs. Anyone, by the way, who is getting…
The last 2 nights have seen me at a couple of comedy sessions – as usual, a testimony to my alertness & awareness… I was mainly looking for an opportunity to see Daniel Kitson without having to trek out into the middle of nowhere, and both gigs turned out to be multi-comic showcases of which…
‘Tis the gently beating wings of my old guardian, The Fuckup Fairy. I ought to have learned by now it’s pointlss to try to get to airports. Today, however, she’s pulled off a rare confluence of subtle cockups, and it would be both unfair & out of character of me not to share them all…
In the absence of an opportunity to type anything substantial this week, here’s a selection of photos I snapped out the window of our plane as we returned from Sweden back in January. Brilliant. (It has also occurred to me that the reasons I’ve never taken such pictures before are threefold: Firstly, I’ve typically flown…
The highly excellent UK comedy website Chortle are running their annual awards competition, and everyone’s favourite shock-haired piano playing genius Tim Minchin has made it to the shortlist in a couple of categories. Now, I’m not typically one to try to influence democracy (although there was that incident where I won Beard Of The Month…
No surprises there then. London, a city which has had a few days of snow pretty much every year I’ve been here, gets a bit of snow and grinds to almost a complete standstill. As if to celebrate, Transport for London cancelled all buses today, and the Underground kept on running as best it could. …
I knew that there was something wrong in Adelaide recently when I started seeing the volume of people on Facebook discussing the weather: ordinarily not a topic that so many people lock onto. Housemate Emma returned from Melbourne yesterday, reporting the ludicrous temperatures that she’d survived on the last couple of days of her trip,…