( bleh )

To the Rio for Man on Wire, a documentary about some French bloke who spent the 70s erecting tightropes across famous buildings with no prior permisssion or anything, and then walking and dancing and on them and all that until the police turned up and stopped him. He stopped after his greatest achievement, which was sneaking up the twin towers in ( Read more... )

( before I forget it all )

Was at a meeting today, and at the end the man chairing it asked to have a meeting with me. He then asked if there was anywhere private we could go. He then said that the Head of Service had been alerted that on the 22nd of May, someone had made a library account for Gordon Brown, 10 Downing Street SW1, and that that someone appeared to be me. I ( Read more... )

BBC- Chelsea have sacked manager Luiz Felipe Scolari twelve days before he would have taken charge ( Read more... )

We went to Scotland last weekend and it was lovely. While the South East was on flod alert we had baking sunshine right until the train back got to Cambridgeshire. Neil and Laura are now in a stunning big flat, of which I am a bit jealous. One side is all big windows and it looks down onto the river and all the bridges and grand riverside buildings ( Read more... )

In a most unusual turn of events I've been to two gigs in two nights. On Tuesday, I left work early and headed to the NFT to see A Resounding Tinkle by NF Simpson. I'd never read it but it's well known for being an important aburdist play- when I got into Pinter and Beckett at school, a lot of the things I read went on about it. I'd always wanted ( Read more... )

As threatened, on Sunday we went down to Brick Lane and I bought a bike. The most naff, battered looking thing I could find; in the hope that nobody will want to steal it. It is a repulsive shade of Fortnums turquoise and the chain rattles like an old man with TB. It's called a Saracen Trekker, though I'm fairly certain it wasn't the main modus ( Read more... )

What beautiful weather. I've had the last two days off because I'm working this weekend. It's been very refreshing to meander around Clissold Park watching people enjoy the sunshine. We've been waiting so long for the cold weather to abate that it feels like a great period of change. The football season is ending, Kate's getting job interviews, my ( Read more... )

I've been up North (well, Chesterfield) this weekend, meeting Kate's extended family at a cousin's wedding. I'm all for the institution of marriage but I do find there's something unavoidably naff about weddings, so you might as well do them completely by-the-book. The reception afterwards was in the bride's parents' very big back garden. We were ( Read more... )