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…

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…

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…

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 !…

Ever had one of those days where you think it would have been better just to stay in bed ? Well I can't really spend too long on that, because that's exactly what I did yesterday. So today proves that even if you do stay in bed, you're still stuffed. First thing was upon arriving…

It's been a reasonably long-held belief of mine that life could be more interesting if we had our own soundtracks. I recall being castigated by my future ex-girlfriend at one point for attempting this experiment by the use of a battery-powered ghettoblaster and a variety of soundtrack tapes, and I'd alter my mood/mode of behaviour…

Everyone loves a whale story. Just spotted by Paul, my ever resourceful & observant Team Leader at work. For some reason, a 20 foot pilot whale has swum into the Thames, and was seen swimming past the Houses of Parliament just now. I can't think what a whale's motivation would be to go into that…

Went down to Camden Market the other day to show Ben & Sarah all the weird stuff down there… As a departure from the “normal” route, I thought we'd nip up & have a look at the completely awesome gallery of rock star photos. As it turns out, they've changed their exhibition to a historical…