We’re sitting on a blanket laid out on the grass in the park. Although the sun has set, it’s a balmy summer’s evening – warm enough to sit barefoot in shorts and t-shirt. The only chill is between us, the remnants – despite a pleasant evening and scrummy food and drink – of a somewhat […]
Well, not so much fever as all-over muscle pain and stiffness.
The problem with playing farmhand for the few days per year it takes to gather hay from the fields is that I’m not used to it. Driving a tractor, throwing bales of hay onto a trailer and speaking in a ridiculously affected West country […]
Britain’s Railways: I thought I knew what they’re like. In a land where no money is spent on the national infrastructure, where everything is incredulously expensive and yet of poor quality, the trains definitely don’t run on time and consuming the over-priced sandwiches available on board is meant to be as near to suicidal as […]
As opposed to Ryan, off poncing about watching an al fresco Midsummer Night’s Dream at Balboa, can anyone think of something better than this for your inner Neanderthal?
The Stella Artois open-air film festival in Greenwich will be showing Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on Sunday 23rd July at 9:30 p.m. and there’ll be lots of food […]
General laziness rules today, so just random crap incredibly interesting links….
1. The Friday Thing, who are wonderful people and send out a highly amusing e-mail every, er, Friday disappointed me somewhat today by referring to this as a “Mind Fuck”. No it isn’t. Adding the individual digits of any two digit number together and then […]
I’m still learning the words required for life in 21st century Britain. Latest one that caused me to do a double-take was learning that the guy behind the counter at Subway is a “sandwich artist”. Now, I’ve only eaten at Subway once (and call me picky about food, but it’s only ever going to be […]
Well okay, just the one. And you’ll have to click on it to get a large-scale version, if pussy cats and bunny rabbits are your kind of thing…..
One of the things that I did miss when I lived a metropolitan life in Germany was having pets – most specifically a dog. However, it just […]
“It’s a bloody disgrace!” he says, scanning my groceries over the barcode-reader. “These buggers come to Britain, they’ve never paid any tax nor national insurance and the government gives ‘em everything whilst soft buggers like me who’ve worked all their lives don’t get owt…” he trails off, his dialect much more stereotypically “old Northern curmudgeon” […]
If you’re going for a job interview in London, check the weather forecast for London, as opposed to, say, Buxton. That way you won’t find yourself at the interview in a 3-piece woolen suit as BBC London TV says; “and with brilliant, clear skies, temperatures reaching 32°C - that’s the low 90’s - in central […]
Almost every year the Royal Mint produces a different design for the reverse of the pound coin. One of the first things I noticed when I returned this time was that one of the newer designs was for the Forth Rail Bridge, at least I think it was the Forth bridge – it was difficult […]
