Archive for June, 2008
Quitting your day job
I had some brilliant news today. Off and on I’ve been in touch with Andy, a friend of mine from my London days for the past few years. He’s been keeping up to date with his London escape plan, which has neccarily had to remain secret so as spook his employers. But today he’s [...]
Jay Z @ glasto
The dude was brilliant. If you’re not at Glastonbury, and you’re not listening to it on the BBC then….. you should be! Hip hop headlining on the main stage of Glasto! Historic. X to the zee man, you knows it.But yeh, I guess listening it to the festival from my garden, over the internet with [...]
Tin bath gardening
After a week or so away from the computer I was feeling pretty relaxed. After a couple of days working for London clients this week I was suddenly back to being a bit stressed again. Luckily, there’s been a bit of a lull in the work today so I’ve been able to chill out.The weather’s [...]
Wombledin
I used to love Wimbledon. I knew the players - boris becker, steffi graf - martina bloomin‘ navratilova. I can’t get the BBC iPlayer outside of the UK without a dodgy UK proxy which never works brilliantly here TBH. But I’d love to follow Wimbledon this year - how should I do it? Radio 5 [...]
A brilliant dive holiday in Antibes
It was a really great holiday. The money issues were sorted out fairly quickly by giving some random yank a lift down to the coast & him chipping in for fuel. Also, just simply taking the decision not to spend any money. It’s amazing how little you need to spend sometimes, even in the South [...]
A bit of adventure
I’m off diving today. Down to Antibes on the Cote D’Azur to dive with a friend of mine, Alex, who runs a dive operation down there, Diamod Diving.
Aside from the adventure of the actual diving I have another, unwelcome adventure at the same time. Although I’ve already paid for the diving & accomodation etc, I [...]
Respecting Eurotrash
The other night I crossed the border between Switzerland and Germany. It was 1am, I was driving my French registered, left hand drive van with sunnies on the top of my head.
The German border guard lady stopped me and asked to look at my passport. So I hand over my British passport and watched her [...]
Just stepping out
Tia’s owner’s friend came over this morning to pick up a set of keys to my place so she can take care of Tia for the 4 or 5 days I’m away. I’m driving up to Paderborn in Germany this afternoon. Organising someone to feed the cat was the last thing on a long list [...]
A funny secret
I quite look forward to Sundays - it’s the day I get the PostSecret post. If you’ve never come across this strangley addictive community art project then have a look at the back-story.
Anyhoo… the secrets are often a bit bleak & depressing, but this one really made me laugh out loud today.
Murdering Little Bastard
Today’s blog entry is a film. Taking the concept of blogging a bit further, I guess video blogging isn’t new, but it’s the first time I feel like a post on this blog really crosses the boundry between writing and film-making.
Below is the script, which could well be read as a blog post, but better [...]
