Mar
31
Moving On Up
March 31, 2007 | 1 Comment
Having had a very good offer for my flat, we’ve now seen a new place that we want to buy. The shift from two of us (and cat) living in a one bedroom flat to a three bedroom, two reception room house could be quite traumatic, but in a good way.
The next huge debate, […]
Mar
30
Yet More Food
March 30, 2007 | 2 Comments
Another flight, more rounds of food, though a shorter flight and fewer rounds this time, but still, a fairly steady sense of too much to eat in too little time to justify it.
Mind you, this comes after dinner last night in one of my favourite restaurants in the whole world - Metrazur, located on one […]
Mar
29
More Shop Fun
March 29, 2007 | 1 Comment
Further to last night’s comment about the Macy’s man covering up my pants, I’ve realised that it’s an action from the same school of thought that leads shop people to hand over a gay magazine* face down, or inside a newspaper if you’re buying one at the same time. An overwhelming desire to protect […]
Mar
29
Airport Again
March 29, 2007 | Comments Off
So after a grand total of 31 hours on the West Coast, I’m in an airport lounge waiting to board an overnight flight to the East. By the time I’m home at the weekend, I’m going to be shattered.
I remember when flying felt exciting to me, and I’m rather sad that it’s pretty much […]
Mar
28
Colour Me Impressed
March 28, 2007 | 2 Comments
This is… incredible.
Mar
27
The Food Overload
March 27, 2007 | Comments Off
There’s something about very long longhaul flights (the nine-hour plus ones) which sort of makes them blur into an ongoing round of food and drink stops. I took one such flight today and my head seems to think I had three meals on it, even though I really didn’t. And yet here I […]
Mar
24
300 Six-Packs
March 24, 2007 | 1 Comment
Last night we went to see 300 on the Imax screen at Waterloo. Based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, it’s a retelling of the story of 300 Spartans who held back the massed ranks of the Persian army at Thermopylae. It’s impossibly over the top, though really there’s no way to underplay […]
Mar
18
This didn’t take long…
March 18, 2007 | Comments Off
Obviously the Scooch song has been out there for a little while, but even so. (Someone on Millarworld dubbed Scooch “The Rock Follies Trolley Dollies”, which I like, though it’s a bit of a slur against the greatness that was Rock Follies.)
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Mar
17
Making Your Mind Up
March 17, 2007 | Comments Off
(Do you see what they did there?)
Watched the opening part of the “UK-chooses-its-Eurovision-entry” programme just now. According to the BBC site, Justin Hawkins (ex-The Darkness) is the favourite, but my guess is that it’s not what the person in the street thinks of as a Eurovision song. Worryingly, the not-very-poppy ‘pop’ song by […]
Mar
16
Mostly Not Funny
March 16, 2007 | Comments Off
There’s a sitcom currently running in Radio 4’s 6.30pm weekday evening slot called Weeke At The Top, or some such feeble pun. Alexander Armstrong (to whom I’d usually give more credit, though there are those Pimms ads to take into account…) plays lead character John Weeke, who’s a Marketing Director, and the whole thing […]