Evening trendsetters ! Well there we go – I've had another Typically British Experience!! On Boxing Day (am still curious as to the origins of this expression – I thought that somehow being up on this half of the world would make it instantly clear and obvious, but as yet I'm predictably none the wiser)…

It just occurred to me the other day – before I left Adelaide, Mat and I spent a fair amount of time cooking up/researching a story for me to tell Brits when they invariably asked what it is I'm doing here. The only weird part is that so far, nobody's really asked in a way…

Well that was fun ! My first Christmas away from home. I was going to say “it's the little differences”, but let's face it – the differences were pretty bloody substantial. For starters, I didn't wake up feeling seedy on the floor in Jono & Julia's living room. There ends a slightly less than glorious…

Only a couple of days to go until the sweaty bloke in the red outfit attempts mass-scale home invasion. It occurred to me th'other day that I didn't get around to sending any Christmas cards this year… or indeed any Christmas emails ! It's unusually slack of me, because typically when I say I can't…

At least it's a story from home that doesn't involve sharks: Man 'sledges' faulty car A man in Adelaide's northern suburbs has taken frustration with his car to the extreme in scenes reminiscent of an episode of the classic comedy Fawlty Towers. Police were called to an address at Salisbury Heights after reports of a…

Eric Idle has written a new musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It sounds thoroughly awesome (and it appears to have a very silly website), but the story doesn't make any mention of a UK run. To me that just seems a little weird, given that Monty Python is essentially a British…

I'm not sure how quite to segue into this discussion, so I'll go with my usual approach of just blundering into it unexpectedly instead. There's been some advertising on here lately for various steps forward in the world of shaving technology. The most ludicrous to me seems to be this new razor which has not…

OK, whinging about computers aside, there's been a fair bit of fun in my immediate vicinity of late. Last night Annie and I went to see a comedian by the name of Jimmy Carr down at the Hammersmith Apollo (dagnammit, I seem to spend half my life down there !)… I can't say his stuff…

There's been a couple of news stories running lately which I interpret of being of quite some concern. The first is the story about scientists growing an array of rat brain cells in a dish and teaching it to fly an F-22 fighter plane. Aside from the “Ooooooh, aaaaaaah !” factor, this news unsettled one…

Intriguingly, after my last post I got 6 or 7 emails from people saying “But didn't you have BACKUPS ?”… I think the obvious answer is that if I had backups I wouldn't be nearly as cranked off ! As it happens, there may be hope yet – I fired the lappy up and it…