Tonight a bunch of us went out for Charlie's birthday, and it was lotsa fun – great company, good atmosphere, and overall a good laugh. The thing that piqued my interest though was the restaurant that we went to –
2004-12-30 : Less “poetry in motion”, more “Filthy limerick in motion”
Evening trendsetters ! Well there we go – I've had another Typically British Experience!! On Boxing Day (am still curious as to the origins of this expression – I thought that somehow being up on this half of the world
2004-12-29 : One from the history books.
It just occurred to me the other day – before I left Adelaide, Mat and I spent a fair amount of time cooking up/researching a story for me to tell Brits when they invariably asked what it is I'm doing
2004-12-25 : Then one soggy Christmas Eve, etc.
Well that was fun ! My first Christmas away from home. I was going to say “it's the little differences”, but let's face it – the differences were pretty bloody substantial. For starters, I didn't wake up feeling seedy on
2004-12-24 : And a partridge in a pear tree (bom BOM!)
Only a couple of days to go until the sweaty bloke in the red outfit attempts mass-scale home invasion. It occurred to me th'other day that I didn't get around to sending any Christmas cards this year… or indeed any
2004-12-21 : I have to push the pramalooooooooooooot
Eric Idle has written a new musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It sounds thoroughly awesome (and it appears to have a very silly website), but the story doesn't make any mention of a UK run. To
2004-12-21 : I miss Adelaide…
At least it's a story from home that doesn't involve sharks: Man 'sledges' faulty car A man in Adelaide's northern suburbs has taken frustration with his car to the extreme in scenes reminiscent of an episode of the classic comedy
2004-12-16 : Christmas is a time of beards.
I'm not sure how quite to segue into this discussion, so I'll go with my usual approach of just blundering into it unexpectedly instead. There's been some advertising on here lately for various steps forward in the world of shaving
2004-12-14 : The season of silliness.
OK, whinging about computers aside, there's been a fair bit of fun in my immediate vicinity of late. Last night Annie and I went to see a comedian by the name of Jimmy Carr down at the Hammersmith Apollo (dagnammit,
2004-12-10 : OK, so James Cameron could have been right…
There's been a couple of news stories running lately which I interpret of being of quite some concern. The first is the story about scientists growing an array of rat brain cells in a dish and teaching it to fly