Bouncers are just plain weird. Obviously part of their remit is presence of command/threat in maintaining a civil environment, but I really can't see where it'd be necessary to ID check a group of people straddling the age of 30. Particularly as you're about to sell them alcohol and thus encourage whatever problem you were…

Sometimes when I book tickets online I think afterwards “Oh bollocks, I wonder if there is another artist with that name ?”. Such thinking narrowly helped me avoid seeing James Morrison (who I had assumed was James Morrison). And in this case it had been gnawing at me that the Bill Bailey I was thinking…

As the infamous “Snap Your Chap” documentary has recently re-screened in Australia, I thought it might be appropriate to highlight the original post from that evening.

Doing things outside of your regular comfort zone is absolutely critical, I believe, and when the opportunity comes up to do this on a weeknight over dinner, with no special safety gear or weird rigamarole involved then it is a chance that should be jumped at. On Thursday night, Nicklearse Klau & I took an…

Starting a story with “I wanted to apply for a bank account” is hardly riveting stuff, but I realise that some of the dizzying star-quality of many of my other blogs is starting to give people vertigo – time to bring it back a notch. Recently I was alerted to what sounded a reasonable proposition…

OK, so it's critical for every computer nerd to have access to bitchin' tunes, right ? Having music to thrash about to is a fundamental human necessity, and the ability to be able to crank it up to 11 every so often is a fine and splendid therapeutic option. It is for this reason that…

Oooh look, a “wacky” photo! Seriously though, though I'd prefer a toe-curlingly strong coffee to a sickly hot chocolate anyway, the mental imagery of a bull being squeezed over marshmallows isn't doing anything to sell it to me. Having said that of course, I'd probably be shocked and aghast to find out what goes into…

Much in the UK press recently has been the government's discussion and embryonic pilot program for the “vehicle tracking and road pricing policy“, and the accompanying e-petition on the Number 10 Downing Street website. The concept is that in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and in turn reduce total vehicle emissions, the government are…

Ingredients for a classy & memorable weekend: 1 loaf of bread, half a kilo of bacon, a 500g block of cheese, 2 litres of coffee, 6 hours of Monty Python DVDs. Oh yeah. Living the dream.

What is it with women and decorative foliage ? Have a huge selection of intensely pigmented pollen stalks sent to a girl and it becomes a Thing That's Talked About Favourably, however should you be more practically-minded and get a couple of dozen heads of iceberg lettuce and a turnip or two sent, and you'll…