Now, before you even think about navigating to the link below, remember this: when it comes to cameras, I'm crap. I don't take good photos (dmh I'll give you a head start now - you may want to check first before the others catch up...), I fail to take my camera to the most interesting places (okay, mainly because at Whitby those are the places where ( Read more... )

"They're not that environmentally conscious, but they've heard of global warming," said Reiner. "Nigel thought it was just because he was wearing too much clothing - that if he just took his jacket off it would be cooler ( Read more... )

Let's see how much of a social butterfly I can be this weekend! Contact details (most importantly: mobile number) can be found from my Memories or here (friends only ( Read more... )

Yes, I know that the Elsinore is the One True Pub for the Whitby Goth Weekend, but my memories of it are generally clouded by an over-arching impression of poor beer (sorry, I don't like Camerons - or at least it doesn't like me)... So, in the spirit of getting to see a bit more of the town as a guise for finding some decent real ales, I searched ( Read more... )

Now I'm not usually one for spamming you with random linkage, but I just know that some of you are going to love these, I'm just not sure which of you...


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Exhortations from colfish have finally got through - aided immensely by last night's awesome gig from Rome Burns where I pogoed/head-banged/three-stepped like a good'un! Yes, I have booked my ticket, accommodation is sorted, just need to tell my boss that I'm going to bugger off for a couple of days ( Read more... )

Tickets have arrived for Type O Negative at the London Astoria on 21st June - I hadn't told Deej in advance so they were a lovely Easter surprise for her ( Read more... )

Hardly earth-shattering, but unusual enough to warrant comment...

...Deej and I will be out in Cambridge tonight - yes, both of us, together! :-) We've got tickets to see "Shiny Toy Guns" at Soul Tree (scroll down here for details) - score one for drunkenly bemoaning a lack of social life and then randomly ordering tickets one night after a few ( Read more... )

Seriously strange...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/milosevic_staked/

All I knew about him was that he appeared in "The Princess Bride" (fantastic film) - turns out he was a wrestling (well, WWF) hero, and a drinking god:

http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html