Definitely Not

So I think the idea with the free film screening tickets that Sal and I use from time to time is that everyone who sees the film goes off and spreads the word. Sadly, that only works if the film is any good. Last week we went over to the Dome or whatever it’s called these days and fought our way through the crowds of Spice Girls’ fans to get to the cinema to see…

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Out Of Order

I wouldn’t normally be taking photographs in the gents toilets in a pub, but when I saw this on Saturday afternoon, well, I couldn’t resist. I don’t know about you, but if there had been a point during the afternoon when I’d “required a no 2”, then there is no way in the world that I would have asked behind the bar so that they could escort me to the ladies…

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Doomed. We’re All Doomed.

On Monday I walked home past one of those Evening Standard headline boards that was yelling at me about “Black Monday”, and telling me that fifty odd billion had been wiped off global share prices. This was on a day when the FTSE had closed down about 300 points for the day. Yesterday the FTSE closed up about 200 points, and so far today it has continued to rise, and might even close marginally up…

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Update

Much to Sal’s chagrin (she calls me “clicky” if I spend more than 20 minutes hunched over the laptop of an evening), I’ve been doing a bit of work on the site recently. I’m really doing it for Sal’s benefit, as I’m anticipating a hypothetical period later this year when I might need to update the blog from internet cafes a bit so that people know what I’m up to, and so I’ve been adding…

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Resolution To Write More in 2008 Already Proving Problematic

As usual, I half-heartedly resolved that this year I might do a bit more writing than last, but somehow life sort of got in the way and it hasn’t really worked out so far. To be fair, I did spend the first two weeks of the year suffering with the same cold that everybody else has (although thankfully not the norovirus, yet) but it was still enough to have me confined to bed on my…

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