Seemingly undeterred by the now legendary trip to Crufts, Dan said “Hey wouldn't it be funny to go visit the London Sewing Machine Museum – it's just near my new house!”. Here follows a list of the reasons why it wasn't fun. The museum was housed in the unlikely looking Wimbledon Sewing Centre – certainly…

I know, I know, I'm way behind AGAIN! To compensate for this, I'm going to try to blog for every day of September that I'm in London. But first… Back in early July I had kind of a big week, which I thought I'd blog for posterity. And as so much time has passed since…

A learned colleague of mine, Mr Dov Spinks, recently made me aware of a website called Blackle – to save you clicking, it's essentially Google search, but instead of appearing as a white screen with black text, it's a black screen with grey text. The reason for this, as indicated on the 'about' page (and…

1) It's not easy to find the Latin word for “breakfast”. I'm still not sure if it's “ientaculum” or “prandium”. Or whether indeed prandium (purportedly, “a late breakfast or lunch”) refers more accurately in my case given the time I usually haul myself out of bed. 2) (more relevantly) K emailed me a little while…

When you feel like I do today, the only appropriate thing to post is about bacon sandwiches. Oh yeah baby. One of the contributions to global cuisine that this rainy island has made is the English Breakfast Fryup. It's so famous that they've named a type of tea after it (English Breakfast Tea that is,…

Turns out all that computer bollards was because of a cacked hard drive. Have replaced it (NOT with a Western Digital – that company's now officially on my shitlist. I reckon 6 of the 7 hard drives I've ever had die were WD's. That's it.), and surprisingly had no trouble so far. Still getting a…

Last night our morris dancing team went out & danced at a garden party put on by a well-respected charity, in a quite lavish location. I'm not 100% sure of the truth of it, but I get the impression that quite a lot of the people there were probably up for the day from their…

AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh! The saga continues. I don't use my desktop PC that often these days, cos I'm out doing stuff all the time, but this morning I thought “I know, I'll hunker down for a couple of hours & get these timesheets for June out of the way”, and what better way to do that than…

Shane snapped this out of the window of our building just before. Heading now to the 10 day forecast… brollys and being inside seems the order of the day. Man are they gonna have fun at the Tour de France Grand Depart this weekend. In unrelated news – I'm extremely happy to find that I'm…