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Hey wow, it turns out you can use your personal blog as a noticeboard. So, as mentioned in my previous post, I’m in the US right now and will be here for a few weeks. I’ve got a few tickets booked for things which I now can’t use, so I thought I’d mention it here…
Here’s a quick update of what I’ve been up to for the past few weeks – work have sent me over to the USA, and though I’m nominally in “New York”, I’m not situated in an office block on the corner of 42nd and Madison, or anything. Despite not being in the thick of it…
They’ve not really thought this one through, have they?
I’m so glad I’m not the sort of person who would rush in and buy this any more. Although, if I save up…
A few weeks ago my learned colleague Billy “The Traffic Cone Marauder” Abbott and I got together, under the watchful supervision of Liz, and commenced an act of civil disobedience. You see, the splendid folk over at Master of Malt Towers had launched a highly excellent Bloggers’ Blend challenge – whereupon whisky bloggers were called…
Just quickly, New York proved its awesomeness the other night by turning up an opportunity to go see improvisational maestro Bobby McFerrin play a gig at the Highline Ballroom as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival with a band he described as one of his personal favourites, The Yellowjackets. Bit of an unusual gig –…
When you feel a cold coming on you hit it with vitamins, right? Everyone knows that! Feeling the unwelcome presence of a cold announcing itself, I went out to [a British chemist chain] and procured the cold-busting trifecta of Berocca, Echinacea and Ginseng. Berocca because it’s packed with vitamins including C, and that’s widely established…
New York – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Pubs – Microbreweries Not strictly a microbrewery (in that they don’t actually make their own beer… guess that’s a bit of a biggie, really), Lazy Boy is a bar which – as the story goes – was started by a couple of tradesmen who…
Was trying to buy nitrous oxide capsules for a handheld espresso machine today in New York. I went to a shop and in my UK-affected speech pattern asked the assistant for “bulbs to use with a whipped cream machine, which look a bit like the CO2 bulb…