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I was in Stockholm this weekend to visit some friends and hook up with my online buddies from The Corporation, as we do every 6 months. One of the friends I was visiting, unconnected to the Corporation, is a very dear school friend, Karl. He and I got to spend the day together preparing for…
I’m drinking a lot of coffee these days. This segment came up in conversation today in Stockhom with my friends Monica and Göran. [youtube 5PcoMrwEa5o]
I’m off to Stockholm tomorrow morning to hook up with some friends for a long weekend of mayhem. I know this video was filmed in Berlin and is full of Germans, but I needed an excuse to add it to my blog, so here it is: the Technoviking: [youtube _1nzEFMjkI4]
You may know that we foster cats. We take them into our home for a little while until they’re adopted by a good home. Quite often, the cats have been abandoned or mistreated and it’s a little work to get them trusting humans again, as well as not worrying too much about vacuum cleaners etc.…
There’s no substitute for mum’s cooking. That’s a definite universal law, up there with Gravity or Entropy. Rebecca’s started experimenting with the family recipe and it’s a hit! Some people think these things should be kept secret. I don’t really see why: if others can enjoy the recipe, then the world’s a better place. The…
You probably know that I really love cats. Sadly, I have allergies and I react badly to many cats, but they seem to be fading. We figured that fostering would be a good way to go because we could see if we could tolerate being around the cat, see if we all got along, and…
Despite the snow today, summer’s definitely coming. I can feel it in the air: there’s this frisson of ozone. I can also hear it: the birds are singing. I can see it too: it’s light when I go home (usually), and my flowerbed and veggies are starting to wake up. Summer also means barbeques. Lots of them. It also…
I was at a work party the other day in the Barbican. We'd booked out one of the cinemas for the company pow-wow, followed by the arboretum for drinks and nibbles. Magicians and cartoonists worked the room and one of them drew this of me: I'm as vain as the next guy, I suppose. I…
I honestly thought they were Italians. I was sitting (yes, sitting! I got lucky!) on the Tube on the way home last night, head buried in the Endymion Omnibus, when a load of rowdy blokes got onto the tube, adding to the already sardine-like quality of the rush-hour crowds. They started singing football songs, which…
You may know that Dinah always throws awesome parties. This year, her birthday party was held in Knutsford, Cheshire and held jointly with her friend Caz. The theme was "Under the Sea", so I was forced to unleash my inner pirate. Photos of the event are all over Facebook, but will be posted on this…
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