Back from Scotland now. Wow, what a trip. Expensive – not as bad as it could have been, but I did manage to pick up 6 new bottles of whisky. Now to find room on The Shelf for them. Anyone
2007-06-01 : Stop the presses!
The idea of being on holiday is to get away from spending all your time online, but check THIS out – we're in Dufftown at the moment (Speyside's whisky capital, and the home of -among other things – The Glenlivet),
2007-05-31 : Brief progress report
Since Sunday we've visited Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Bruichladdich and Bowmore distilleries, as well as going to a whisky nosing competition & scottish dance, and sampled about 20ish whiskies each. The credit card has taken a battering, however now we've left
2007-05-28 : Not that one is in the business of upsetting people…
…but today as our ferry rounded the south coast of Islay and we nonchelantly passed the Ardbeg distillery, then Lagavulin, then Laphroaig, before mooring at Port Ellen. I think this whisky tour is going to be fun.
2007-05-26 : Noooo, no no no, not de vista
Normally I'd avoid a new version of Windows like the bubonic plague (I think it took at least until the end of 2002 for me to move over to XP), however in light of the fact that my desktop PC
2007-05-23 : Shut that bloody bouzouki up!
Once again, The Barbican comes up with the goods. It took a little convincing and good faith on their part, but I dragged Hannah, Paul and new UK arrival Kat along to see one of the world's most extraordinary and
2007-05-22 : Nothing to see… Nothing to see here…
Went for lunch with K yesterday at a pub in Belgravia. Nothing in particular happened there, but upon leaving the pub and walking around the corner we discovered blue & white “Police Line – Do Not Cross” tape. In hindsight
2007-05-19 : Flup-de-huuuw, chickey-in-di-basket, etc.
I'm on a train to Stockholm, having just been allowed into the country wearing these ridiculous trousers. I'm going to Helen's wedding tomorrow. Just thought some of you might be interested. If you wanna get a wedding message to her,
2007-05-18 : And on that farm he had a piecost, E-I-E-I-O
Apropos of nothing, back in the mid 1990's (before computers had been invented) I used to write to a lot of people. It was obvious that email was going to be my undoing. However back then it was the Old
2007-05-17 : Such a fine line between stupid and clever
OK, so I'm so busy churning over whether to go on eBay and spend a couple of hundred quid on LiveEarth tickets (what could be my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Britain's Loudest Rock Group, Spinal Tap, perform), that I pretty