It just goes to show that you can never tell how people are going to interpret things. We've just had a bloke wandering around in our area asking if anyone can help him with “Skippy”. I was ready to have him shipped off to the funny farm on the spot, but after questioning it seems…

Here is a picture of our kitchen on Monday, after our awesome cleaner had been through. Here is a picture of our kitchen this morning. Note that there's only a few plates stacked next to the sink – that's because the rest were still on the floor in the loungeroom. My housemate, despite being home…

I don't want to try to rub it in anyone's face about how eclectic my musical tastes are, but after the last couple of weeks you'd have to start to wonder… First cab off the rank, which I cunningly forgot to mention, was the Xavier Rudd gig on the 26th of Nov. Having only ever…

Last night I got to see one of the best overall gigs I've ever been to. Irrespective of the actual quality of the music, I was in the presence of a Rock God – the legendary Robert Plant. Venue: Hammersmith Palais – upon walking in I was quite surprised at how nice it was! Rendered/textured…

Ah, much better ! My SECOND ever sudoku took 20 mins, and not a single profanity to erase! Right, so I've clearly mastered that. Time to go discover cold fusion, or train some Bulgarian swearing whelks, or something.

Finished my first ever sudoku puzzle the other day. I started it last Wednesday, and finished it last night. Given that it was an 'easy' one, I'd of course like to explain that the reason it took so long was that I've had no time to do it. Whereas the actual reason is that I…

Heard this exchange in the Post Office the other day whilst waiting in the relentless queue from hell – Man with deep loud voice: Now, is it still the same price for stamps to send these to The Empire ? Disinterested post office pleb: Empire sir ? MWDLV: New Zealand, South Africa, places like that….

Right well that's that then ! Last night we put Movember to rest. Our initial grand master plan was to go to Rollerdisco, but maybe they'd gotten wind of it or something, because a notice went up on their website saying that Rollerdisco was cancelled for Dec 1st. So we went to the pub across…

Am on mad blog catchup detail again. Curse this tendency to not get round to things ! My email's suffering somewhat too. My Drafts folder's at an all time record of 60 messages waiting to be replied to. ONLY 3 DAYS OF MOVEMBER LEFT ! And I can't say I'm sad to see the back…

OK, so where were we ? Playing chess in a pub in Brussels, I think. A couple of things about that pub – I said it was 1920's style, which wasn't necessarily apparent from the main pub section (although I must admit I found it weird to have such a huge and cavernous room), but…