The time has come for the great resurrection. To be honest, I'd been planning this for some time. I've long grown weary of Facebook and its total lack of filtration of people's lives. I do want to hear about what people are up to, but I don't want blow-by-blow accounts of what soups people are eating. At least during the LJ days people bothered to ( Read more... )

I've been annoyed enough with doggers on this road in the past. Often time I've walked past them only to see their vigour increase, as if my presence has given them energy. When I think about why they use this road, I think their probably answer is "It's so exciting to know we could get caught" at which point I think "Well... you have been caught ( Read more... )

I am still alive. May this post prove it. I doubt this is going to be a long entry. I've not updated in some six or seven months, which is ridiculous. I've never taken a hiatus this long before, and I don't mean for it to happen again (though no guarantees). You'd think perhaps I had nothing to write about, but quite the opposite. So much has ( Read more... )

Damn, what? 2012 is in its final minutes? Well I've got to get an entry in quick then. I may not be in a sufficiently non-pickled state to do that, but we can only try ( Read more... )

For a multitude of reasons (for which read bad organisation on my part) I found myself drawn to another jaunt in London last/this week. I don't know why I couldn't resist, but part of me knew it couldn't be so wrong if it felt so right. I might be confusing right with polluted here, but as I walked down Oxford street at half past eleven at night ( Read more... )

Well, as promised, here's a general overview of what brought me to London and what I did there: madness ( Read more... )

Well, I scarcely know what's hit me recently. I've been ramping it up to 11 at work to hit some deadlines, and after hitting them I found myself unexpectedly with a bit of TOIL on my hands. Instead of lying in bed or staring at cows (both admittedly attractive options) I found myself rushing off to London instead for an emergency short-term ( Read more... )

My Amsterdam hyper-wife adventure is yet to be told, but rest assured I do intend to get around to it. I was very close to initiating Wife Hunt IV: Czechmate after seeing some Prague super-wife wife material wife... w... I've lost myself. Well nevermind, the point is that I've been too busy at work to do much of anything of late, so the updates ( Read more... )

People always say "That was a lovely holiday, but it's nice to be back". Nonsense! It's far greater to be out there. Amsterdam's a damned paradise. In the past couple of days I've been forlornly continuing my tour using Google Street View, pretending the sudden jumps in travelling speed are due to the fumes of a nearby coffee shop. This is ( Read more... )

Well, it's my last night in Amsterdam, and I'm afraid the franchise isn't over yet. There'll be a Wife Hunt IV: Weddingment Day unless I can pull something out of the bag mightily quickly. That seems unlikely under the circumstances as the only people about apart from myself are the tremendously burly but ever so friendly security guards, and ( Read more... )