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
2006-06-22 : Cinq et un jours-excellents !
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
2006-06-14 : Just a quickie… (I believe that’s pronounced “quiche”, sir)
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…
2006-06-11 : No, Nathaniel !
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
2006-06-07 : Are these people for real ?
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
2006-06-06 : With the oil of Aphrodite, and the dust of the Grand Wazoo, he said “You might not believe this, little fella but it’ll cure your asthma too”
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
2006-05-31 : Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun…
If it wasn't for the actual specific details of the arrangement, you could easily get depressed about forking out swathes of cash to sit on your arse and watch 60 year olds. In this case, however, the sexagenarians in question
2006-05-30 : Here’s a real nowhere clan, sitting in their nowhere van.
The game plan was that we were going to head out to Canterbury for a bit of a dance, then on down to Rye for the long weekend. The guys came and collected me from Camden, and The Navigator (names
2006-05-26 : Brief respite for liver recovery
The tour's going extremely well, with the exception of some fairly rubbish rain arrangements. It hammered down Wednesday and disrupted our tour with the Westminster Men, it was a lovely day yesterday when the Adelaide men went off to France,
2006-05-26 : Day 17. Things are not going as weIl as planned.
Greetings from the M25. We may be here for some time. Special greetings to our new Northamptonshire readership.