Maximum hassle I’ve had an utterly miserable time desperately trying to sort out a new home for the bandwidth-guzzling bulletin boards. Despite the generous donations being thrust my way from …
Maximum hassle – finding a home for urban75 Read MoreNow, I’m definitely not one for any of that ear-candle, chakra-chanting psychic healing tosh, but I have to say that acupuncture floats my boat. I first tried it last year …
Acupunctured! Read More
And on a happier note…. If you’ve been reading my blog you’ll know that I spent an eternity mulling over what camera to buy, eventually plumping for the Minolta A2 …
Minolta A2 camera Read MoreWhat a dull, fiddly-diddly, tech-tastic day Apart from a quick shimmy to the Brixton Lounge for an afternoon coffee, I’ve spent the entire day trying to sort out the tricky …
What a dull, fiddly-diddly, tech-tastic day Read MoreA spectacularly shite day I’ve spent the greater part of the day suffering Bulletin Board Tech Hell, enduring so much fucking hideous 1980s ‘on hold’ music that I may as …
A spectacularly shite day Read More
Waiting for the train… The view from the platform of Lelant Station while waiting for the 15:25 branch line train to St Ives. (Pic taken with my Sony Clie PDA …
Waiting for the train… Read More
Local history-tastic! The Cornish weather took a turn for the worse, so we checked out the attractions of St Ives. First stop was the Library to avail ourselves of …
An afternoon in St Ives, Cornwall Read MoreSpring in St Ives Its narrow streets are thundering to perhaps a few more tourists than I’d like (the curse of Easter continues!), but once you get away from the …
Spring in St Ives Read MoreThrough the Cornish hillside… There aren’t many things nicer than watching the verdant hills of Cornwall rolling by from a train window with “When Mac was Swimming” (Innocence Mission) on …
Through the Cornish hillside… Read More
A bad technology day This cartoon (from Rana and Peter’s birthday card to me) seems to perfectly sum up the last hour of my life, although this time the grief …
A bad technology day Read MoreMo:blogging One of the articles I wrote for Internet Magazine was a four page special on mobile blogging, explaining how you can use a Palm and a mobile phone to …
Mo:blogging on the Palm Read MoreI fucking hate Easter. It’s like four dull Sundays all shunted together into a 1950s-style weekend of cruelly curtailed drinking hours. A great mass of London buggers off leaving the …
Easter blues… Read MoreWriting and alcohol I’ve always warmed to the romantic notion of the late night writer, pumping out damning prose on a rattling typewriter, a bottle of whisky on the desk …
Writing and alcohol Read MoreA Brixton drunk night It was one of those nights that make you feel good to be alive: meeting loads of chums in your local, chewing the fat, talking shit …
A Brixton drunk night Read More
Top night! Updates from a fabulous night in the West End, watching feminist Oregon rockers, Le Tigre at the Astoria. And they rocked! We met up with urban75-ers Kea, Phototropic, …
Le Tigre at the Astoria, 2004 Read MoreApologies to urban75 bulletin board folk The boards have been going up and down faster than an over-excited pneumatic drill on amyl nitrate today, but the word is that someone …
Apologies to urban75 bulletin board folk Read More
Ouch! Me ‘ead Today I’m suffering the mother, father and extended family of hangovers. Last night was lager plus – and more – and now I’m paying the full price …
Ouch! Me ‘ead. Birthday party hangover Read MoreWeb-tastic It doesn’t seem that long ago that the web was seen as the exclusive domain of tightly zipped anoraked spodheads – I can remember when receiving an email was …
Web-tastic Read MorePeople! Bugger off! Well, I don’t mean you, dear blog reader, but it has to be said that this site is becoming a victim of its own success. Right now, …
People! Bugger off! (the site’s too busy) Read MoreCafé 1 Work 0 It seemed like a good idea: go out for a walk in the spring sunshine and then go to The Lounge café to start work on …
Café 1 Work 0 Read MoreGreat time-waster! Bored at work? Check out the Yeti Sports Penguin-throwing game – version THREE!
Great time-waster! Read More
Hanging out in Brixton After my failed mission to sort out a new pair of pants, I returned to Brixton to check out a fund raising benefit for the Stockwell …
Stockwell Skate Park Read MoreI would go out tonight… Shopping for clothes? God I hate it! As anyone who knows me will testify, I’m not exactly Mr Fashion, but I try and dress vaguely …
I would go out tonight… Read More