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I’m following a low carb diet at the moment. I’m not allowed anything involving rice, pasta, potatoes, bread. I’m not allowed anything with sugar, and that includes fruit, unfortunately. I am allowed meat, nuts and plenty of green vegetables. At first, I was grumpy and felt a bit run down, but I adjusted quickly and…
As a leaving present from my last company, I was given an AeroPress, a coffee maker that looks like a big syringe. This was a very appropriate gift because I’m a bit of a coffee addict (I’ve even got a section on coffee on this blog), and I think sometimes I’d resort to shooting up…
I live in a wonderful part of the world called Harrow on the Hill. It’s rich with history: eight British Prime ministers were educated at the school here, and the church on the top of the hill, St. Mary’s, dates back to 1094. Another feature on the Hill has been the scaffold on the High Street,…
I’ve been going to the gym on and off for many years. Sometimes, I was training just for the hell of it, other times to support my sporting goals (for some time I did Kyokushinkai karate). I started off training at the rather excellent Riverside Gym in Hampton Court. The owner, Myles, has achieved great…
Whilst having lunch in Covent Garden with friends over the weekend, we noticed a few people dressed as bees handing out flyers. I thought I’d get a photo with one of them, posing as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening, even though there are so many things wrong with this picture… The guy…
Our oven is pretty rubbish, so for a nice hearty sunday dinner, I’ll often cook up a chilli – it’s usually a hit in the house and with guests, and I always make a little too much so that I can fill my week with meaty leftovers. Rebecca’s church choir recently hosted a visiting choir…
I’m an alumnus of the LSE. I get invited to gatherings there quite frequently, but I’ve managed to miss going for years because I’ve usually been travelling for work or just working too far away to get to an event there on time. I’m now working in central London, just around the corner from the…
My time in the beautiful Cook Islands is up, and with it, my time travelling around the world, with just my wits and my backpack. Ahead of me was a 24 hour flight from Rarotonga to London, via Los Angeles. Thankfully, my flight was late in the evening, so I had a full day to…
In Japan, I had sipped Kirin and Sapporo. In Hong Kong, it was Tsingtao. In Vietnam, I’d sampled both the Hanoi and Saigon beers. In Australia I really liked Carlton Draught. The only place I couldn’t find any “indigenous” beer on sale was in the Cook Islands! This was despite having heard quite a lot…
Pretty much every day here is a little surreal. The colours, the light, the scenery and the people are so delightful that it’s sometimes hard to believe I’m actually in a real place, on the same planet as my home, London. I was met by Karsten on my return from Aitutaki, and he and his…
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