Every now again I get a weekend that shouts “Aren't you glad you came here ?”, and this weekend was just such an example. After a fairly intense Friday night pub engagement at the Lockside Lounge to farewell Funkdancing Paul Bird from his place of work (and aided by that finest of the Cooper family's…

I'll explain later. Life's yet again good: Friday night Malinda took Emzo, HC, Steve & myself to the exhibition at her work, Game On: a history of video games through inception to today. I'd gone along with the noblest of intentions to extend my understanding of the genre by availing myself of the educational material…

Whoever left me a voicemail this morning live from a Roger Waters gig, of the entire performance of him singing Wish You Were Here: Thankyou. I'd just been stuck for about 15 minutes on the Tube in the tunnel between Green Park and Victoria, and was feeling a bit pissed off & small & insignificant…

Revenue: Am a bit shart off about a particularly unwelcomely big tax bill which arrived whilst I was off having fun in the snow. As with being caught for speeding, the first reaction is to blame everyone/thing else, but essentially it boils down to my lack of understanding of the was tax works. So the…

All back safe, sound, & shattered from this year's snowboarding epic. Taking the train seemed like the leisurely and relaxed way to go on the way over, but by the time the trip back came about I was kinda getting tired of the whole procedure. The snow in Zell Am See as we were waiting…

It's always the way, innit ? Last day of snowboarding, and you think “Well I've had a good run this week – anything from here on is just bonus points…”. My plan for Friday was to do some warmup runs, then head up the top of the glacier, take the blue run down to the…

Happy Australia Day from Austria ! They say that Austria's the one without kangaroos, but I very nearly changed all that. Well, at least I would have done if that kangaroo suit hadn't shot up to 62 pounds on eBay. Final day on the glacier today. Then by Sunday it'll be back to normal life,…

OK so much for the writing something every day bit – our typical routine here is wake up, have breakfast, head out & slide down the side of a mountain somewhere, come back, have a nice cold Austrian lager or 3, go for dinner, come back, flake out. Rinse & repeat. As you can see,…

In order to make up for not having written anything much about last year's trip to Solden, the fact that there's a WiFi connection here in Kaprun means I can attempt to do an in situ day-by-day update on the snowboarding trip. Lucky, eh ? We've just pulled up after a fairly horrid trip over…

Right, well that's me away to the snow then ! A bunch of us are off to Kaprun, in Austria, for a week of gravity-fed snow+plank related adventures, and hopefully this year I'll get around to blogging about it. As Richie pointed out yesterday, there's a website called Metcheck which does all kinds of funky…