Some really quite annoying things have happened this week, but by and large it's been great to be home, showing Kate Northern Ireland and seeing my family. Yesterday we went on a boat off Portrush on a fishing trip, which was great fun. I was probably the least successful of us, but I still caught five or so mackerel.


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I 've been reading a lot about drink recently.

The Guardian's Book of Drinking may be marketed as a throwaway Miscellany-style by-the-till gift book, but it's actually a very interesting collection of articles about alcohol and attitudes to it from the last 190 years.

For example, one of the persistent theories about the popularity of cocktails ( Read more... )

I did write about 600 words on alcohol on the LJ app on my iPhone. Which is, you may appreciate, no mean feat.

Then the app did exactly what it wasn't supposed to do and ate the fvcker.

So you can consider that my great lost masterpiece or a lucky escape, whilst I punch some soft furnishings and have a fr1gging drink.

Are "Kerber and Black" of the Daily Mirror...


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• Kings of Lidl
• Elvis Costco
• Amy Housewine
• The Aldi Monkeys
• Asda Camera

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Did anybody see the adaptation of David Peace's Nineteen Seventy-Four tonight? Jesus p1ssing Christ, that was terrifying. I'm driving back to West Yorkshire tomorrow evening and Mother, I'm scared...

Sean Bean was great though, eh? He had exactly the accent, belly and mannerisms of a friend of mine. Which is also worrying.

Up, and it being bitter cold, and frost and snow, which I had thought had quite left us. I by Tube to the office, listening by iPod to the new Madam Allen single, this the first week it has been heard, and very fine it is. She is a fine, healthy girl with a turn of phrase uncharacteristic of her sex; and yet I pray she is not chosen as the Doctor ( Read more... )

Hmm. Do you think this is linked to this?


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I went to sleep last night with the coverage of the US election on Radio 4 on in the background. I dreamed that Obama won but he betrayed us all when it was revealed that his whole campaign was actually a viral advert for Hula Hoops.


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