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…

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,…