Today is the last day that you can register to vote in the UK referendum on remaining in the EU ( Read more... )

Foreign Policy magazine brings us a high quality article on how cats resemble Vladimir Putin.

So, today I took my (Oakley) sunglasses back to Vision Express because I thought there was supposed to be a bit of etching on the edge of the lens to obscure some of the visual distortion at the lens edge. Their Oakley specialist agreed there should be and will contact Oakley, likely to have a new pair made entirely correctly. He seemed somewhat ( Read more... )

Hello kitten my old friend,
you've come to shed on me again,
because a feline softly creeping,
left its fluff when I was sleeping,
and the pawprint that was planted on my face,
still remains,
I hear the sound of purring

The New Model Army are playing the Junction in Cambridge on Thursday 10 November 2016.

The days are warmer, flowers are blooming, gardening is in full swing ( Read more... )

So, I hear that a new sushi restaurant to open in Cambridge (next to Jamie's Italian and opposite the Corn Exchange entrance) wishes its staff to communicate in a mixture of basic Japanese and Danish so that the customers have no idea what they are saying ( Read more... )

In conversation with one of the sound techs at the conference I am attending, I suggested he replace the (anodyne crap) filler music with some Prince. He looked like this was a reasonable suggestion for a moment, then Understood and agreed firmly this was clearly the right thing to do. I hope he had some with him to do this.

Racism: bad for people, bad for wildlife, and bad for your African farming business.

It's just stupid, even if you're just greedy and don't care about people or wildlife.

Boxes are good for cats - they reduce stress levels (with journal citation half way down).