I am just 5 days and one interview away from achieving my greatest career ambition ( Read more... )

The monsters you lie awake at night worrying about do not lurk under your bed. They are not in the wardrobe or behind the curtain. They are under the sink. I know, for i have not merely seen but battled with them.

( Release the demons... )

We all have little banks of stories we drag out, like inexpert stand ups, when on various topics of conversation with new audiences (though there's always the odd one or two hardcores who've heard the damn things a thousand times before and wish you'd get a few new lines). And because we do mindlessly churn these ridiculous and laregly ( Read more... )

Well boys and girls, it's been a good year. And it's been a while since i got to the end of December (even though i am 2 days short) and thought that ( Read more... )

I just had a flashback of a guy on Saturday night when i was at work asking me please to not take any pictures of him because he was in the mafia... I suspect he was making it up, because although he was mean and Italian looking (and sounding), i really don't think Event II would be the venue of choice for any self-respecting mafioso coming to

I just found a packet of ginger biscuits in the cupboard. Yay.

Never mind the caffeine, never mind the nicotine - i have a serious problem ( Read more... )

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I am absolutely convinced that the best view in Brighton is the one from the little window on the half flight of stairs down to our kitchen and bathroom. You can't see the sea, but there's a spiralling old-fashioned fire escape just outside, the sun rises and sets at just the right angle to cast fantabulous shadows, and you can see out over the ( Read more... )

Can anyone tell me why it is that so many people seem to think that jabbing repeatedly at the pedestrian crossing button (or the car park ticket machine, or the bell on the bus - anything of a clicky/buttony nature) will make the green man light up quicker? It baffles me completely ( Read more... )