Well, England may be famously described as “a nation of shopkeepers”, but judging by the responses I've had lately it seems that Australia takes the title of “A nation of Plumbers” ! Thanks to all the useful suggestions of how to solve my washing up dilemma – next time the opportunity arises to do the…

Yes, I'm just that busy (n.b. this may make no sense to non-Australian audiences… and in a rare first, probably not much to Australian audiences either, but anyway). I've been pretty flat out at work today and haven't had a chance to put up the wondrous stuff about my wacky trip to Frankfurt on the…

Well, that's another week nearly out of the way ! No great tales of high adventure still, although I am heading off to Germany (Frankfurt, to be specific) this weekend to catch up with Paul (a former colleague from Suspect) and his lovely girlfriend Sharon. I don't speak any useful German, so I guess I'll…

OK, here's my first public plea for help – we need a plug for our kitchen sink. At the moment we're doing the washing in a plastic basin-type-thing which sits in the sink, and it's REALLY GIVING ME THE SHITS ! Not that it's the only thing doing that at the moment, but that's a…

Here's one to appease those tired of reading long posts on my site. Didn't do much this weekend – went down to HomeBase (a “hardware store”) to get some picture rail hooks, but they didn't have any. Decided to conduct a photographic essay on the number of Chicken Shops on Willesden High Road, but then…

Wow, time appears to be flying. It's been a mucho busy week ! Firstly, we have hot water again. That was Saturday's breakthrough. After almost a week of having a procession of fairly useless non-plumbers file through and explain that “they can't possibly fix it today, because it's the valve/tank/pump/flux capacitor/whatever” we decided to call…

Couple more things – firstly Happy Birthday Tim, cos y'know… it's his birthday and all. As a special present I was almost tempted to link to that arse photo again, but I think the world can do without. Secondly, I've had a few emails from people discussing Billy Connolly's recent headlines… Now having read a…

Got a couple of days to catch up on here. I've been pretty busy too, so I'll try to keep it down to 25 paragraphs or so. Tuesday morning when I went to get in the shower, it seemed like the hot water was taking an awful long time to heat up. After several minutes…

OK, *I'm* not in Holland, but Pat and Jules are as part of their European Tour (obviously they couldn't fit the rest of the band in their luggage… but what else do you really need other than a bass player and a guest vocalist ?), and they showed the good judgement to send me a…

(Incidentally, if you haven't heard “The Prole Song” by Snog, check it out – it's a favourite of mine at the minute. Thanks Richie !) Nothing much new – just slaving over a hot keyboard for endless hours a day. I still have mixed feelings about working until 10pm on a Sunday night. Part of…