I'm currently sitting in a hotel room in Harrogate, reflecting on the interesting series of events that have led to me being here ( Read more... )

If I had to name one thing that I'm really, really good at, I think procrastination would come pretty close to the top of the list. I'm pretty good at coming up with all sorts of wild (some might say half-baked) ideas, but I rarely get round to actually doing anything with them.

Well, this evening I was pottering about the house, singing Ruth's solo ( Read more... )

A quick follow up to the previous entry... I occasionally get sucked into mammoth youtube sessions, and the most recent one involved seeing how many different versions of "Drink to me only with thine eyes" are out there (after seeing the one with Duke Special and Neil Hannon). The answer is 'quite a few' (and yes, I did listen to rather too many of ( Read more... )

Duke Special, Glee Club, 2nd June 2008I first fell a little bit in love with Duke Special when I saw him last year at Greenbelt (well, if I'm going to be entirely honest, it started when I saw his picture in the programme, all smudgy eyeliner and dreads falling across his face, perched beside an ancient gramophone). Last year's gig was a large- ( Read more... )

I am a happy bunny. I have been lent a new toy to play with... and there's no electronics involved. It doesn't even have a 'power on' button (though this hasn't stopped me looking for one, because nothing unpowered should be able to make quite this much noise ( Read more... )

Is anyone out there interested in coming to this year's Sub Brit Spring Day Conference on Saturday 12th April? cabbage will doubtless want to go. I'm not always so keen, but the promise of a 1950s film of the Tube By Night, and the talk about the history of London's sewers have proved sufficient to lure me in this year! Tickets for non-members are £20, ( Read more... )

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Well, after a couple of years of 'thinking about it', I've finally stopped procrastinating and bought myself a laptop. And I'm sorry, evilmattikinz, it's not a mac. It's an acer aspire 4920G, it's running the much-maligned Vista, and we're now on Day 2 and it hasn't yet done anything to really annoy me. Could this be the start of a beautiful friendship ( Read more... )

Let somebody else eat your words ;)

OK, here's a little question for you - what's your name backwards ( Read more... )