I know that I've spewed forth a load of rhetoric about London not being my ideal of an environment in which to raise a child, however from time to time it occurs to me that there are things here which I desperately wish I'd had access to during my high school education, and one of…

Wow, this sock project has proven a couple of things to me so far – primarily that there's more of you reading this than I thought there were, and also that the dreaded sock shortage extends to Fair Oceania as well. Size 6-10 red socks are in abundance, but that's no use to me –…

Oooooh yeah, feast your sensory organs on this little nugget! Ordinarily I wouldn't write a whole blog entry about a random link, however this is too good not to draw to your proper attention. How HAS the world gotten this far without virtual karaoke?! Luckily this gap in the market has now been firmly plugged…

Had a dream last night that I went to a big company meeting for a large software crew I was working for – no idea where or what it was – and for some reason we'd all taken our desktop PCs along. For some reason I was late; as with most dreams, recollections are sketchy…

I've been wearing red Explorer socks (Holeproof Explorer – the 4WD of socks) since I was about 15. Not 100% sure why, but I suspect it's cos Explorer socks are nice & thick, and they're good for preventing blisters and foot-rubbiness, and red just cos I like red. However my s(t)ocks have become somewhat depleted…

Seldom do I get the opportunity to genuinely do nothing, and that's exactly what I did on the weekend – the problem being of course that it's a difficult thing to blog about, seeing as how my blog is traditionally a list of stuff that I've been doing. How best to illustrate NOT doing anything?…

…a false beard ranking problem – I've been included in the vote for the June Beard Of The Month on Travelbeard.com, however at the minute it's not looking promising. …a coffee-making stalker – I go to Marks & Spencer for a coffee every day, and having established myself as a regular customer, the girls who…

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), and tonight we went to a restaurant where I had… Wait for it… WILD BOAR!!!…

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 Islay things should ease off. I HOPE things ease off. Currently we're sitting in a…