Now why is it that a bank over here will post you a new ATM card via registered post (i.e. requires a signature, and if you are not home at the time they come around then it also means dragging your arse off down to the post office with some ID to collect this letter…),…

It's all a bit irrelevant (and of course it's now the 3rd post in a row that email readers won't be able to make sense of unless they visit the website), but I thought I'd share a photo that a friend of mine took whilst on his recent European Tour: Chris from work (aka Lord…

This turned up in our company email this morning: (note to people getting this by email – you're gonna have to visit the website to actually see what it is…) Admittedly, it was somewhat better described further down the page, however you've got to agree – it's one of the weirder things you're going to…

Still putting off writing about Wales. If I leave it long enough, I'll completely forget what we did and where we went! In the meantime, feast on this nugget of a happening… Every now and again, apart from the seemingly ceaseless parade of bills, I get a letter through the front door. Sometimes it's a…

I'm doing it again – procrastinating over writing a website post, because there's just so darn much to say ! On the long weekend just gone, Paul, Jaim, and Jaim's friends Cynthia, Steve and Suzie – and of course myself – went to Wales for a bit of a random drive about and see things…

Before I get into this, I don't want any questions of “Why in the hell would you do such a stupid thing ?”, OK ? Doing stupid things has been a lifestyle choice of mine since the age of about 14. A few weeks ago, one of my learned colleagues mooted an idea that a…

Another year, another glorious Eurovision Song Contest! Sadly once again I didn't get the chance to sit down and get a proper listen to the compelling song & dance action in this, the world's bigget Rock & Roll Eisteddfod, and nor was I able to listen to the scintillating commentary of Terry Wogan, the guy…

I think I've just reached new heights of procrastination – I've just finished watching the FA Cup Final. Given my quite well-documented lack of interest in football/soccer (circle as appropriate based on your location), it's a fairly surprising way for me to spend 90 minutes. I guess the strangest thing was the compulsion to see…

For the non-nerds, let the eye-rolling and exasperated sighing commence. For the rest of us, I've just walked in from Star Wars. Wow. What a ride ! The Puzzler and I decided to go along, and it didn't turn out difficult to get tickets to – clearly Camden's not the big cinema of choice for…

…but I've got some photos of the alien podule plastic ant things ! The contents of this one weren't quite as good as the last 2 – beef in green peppercorn sauce… nope, can take or leave that I think. Speaking of cuisine, however, tonight I went to a Vietnamese Cookery Class put on by…