Time flies, therefore, am having fun. Lots to report, and no time to currently do it in. In the meantime, here's an interesting fact which Wazza dug up: The name of the first Dutchman in space was Wubbo Ockels.

I HATE Stansted Airport. Stansted Express – late & running slowly. Stansted security queue – manned by George “The Animal” Steele's less able-minded stunt double. But then, with typical British efficiency, my 2040 departing plane boards at 2050. Oh and some dickhead with one of those wheely bags accidentally drops it on the boarding stairs…

So because I've been so damn slack, but multiple attempts to get up to speed in the last week and a half have gone nowhere, here's the short, short version: 18th March – hooked up with Sean Ramsey-Hyphen-Bullshit-Moore and went to see Pete and Dud: Come Again – a play exploring the relationship between Peter…

ARSE ! For the past couple of months I've been making a rubber band ball. The project was primarily prompted by a story on the BBC news site about posties getting stick for dropping rubber bands everywhere. Apparently Royal Mail uses 342 million rubber bands a year, and after a brief look around when I…

It was a big weekend that weekend, OK ? I had my first experience of Jethro Tull on the night of Saturday the 11th. Quite a good gig, and yet again I went with no prior knowledge of the band's material, which I'm finding increasingly bizarre when the rest of the crowd's in a retrospective…

This is wayyy catchup now (although the snowboarding trip's still to come !) but last Friday HC invited me along to see some singing comedian bloke she'd heard on the radio, and it was with mixed enthusiasm & skepticism that I trundled along to Soho to meet the others in a bar. I'm fairly easily…

Nothing like a cold shower to get your heart started in the morning… Yes, there's still teething problems with the new house, and I'm feeling none too special today having just had a 6 degree shower, following not having one at all yesterday because the water was just too cold. Character building, they say. Anyhoo,…

Asterisk: A star-shaped character used in printing, used chiefly to indicate an omission, a reference to a footnote, or an unattested word, sound, or affix. [Middle English, from Late Latin asteriscus, from Greek asteriskos]. Asterix: Short-statured, violent, fictional Ancient Frenchman. THEY'RE NOT THE SAME BLOODY THING!

According to Ananova Pope Benedict XVI likes to chill out after a hard day's blessing with a few tunes from his shiny new iPod Nano. But just the bog standard edition, mind you – not the diamond encrusted bling version. I like the idea that the Vatican's Main Man, despite being well past typical VCR…

Had my first ever trip to the opera on Saturday night. Hannah and Catrin (both looking a million dollars) accompanied me to the Royal Albert Hall for my maiden operatic voyage. Despite feeling a little seedy from a 4am poker game and impromptu creative writing session with the new housemates, and a mid-afternoon rum sampling…