As it turned out, we didn't stay in Bruges/Brugge (It is rather confusing that all the notionally-'English' names for places are the French versions when you're pottering about the northern end of the country and wondering if you're causing more offence than usual by getting it wrong.) and that turned out to be a good thing. The train from Antwerp ( Read more... )

You know there's a dearth of ideas laying around when someone begins a piece with 'so ( Read more... )

As appears traditional for the winter season, the combi boiler has been playing up. It would randomly fail to restart and sit there blinking its error LED gormlessly ( Read more... )

I've jabbered on about Caribou in the past. Probably when he/they were still called Manitoba, so before some has-been old sod from a no-mark pub rock combo threw a benny about the name ( Read more... )

AA Milne and AA Gill (incy)
BB King
CC Peniston (more or less)
DD Ramone (ditto) and DD Jackson (totnesmartin)
ee cummings
FF Meta (Wins over FF VII through more surreal points. miss_soap)
GG Bailey (emzebel)
HH Munro
II Captain (mr_tom and avocadovpx need professional help) and II Claudius (It's too late for codepope though)
JJ Jeczalik
KK Downing
LL Bean (Got any better ideas?) LL Cool J (yaruar and diffrentcolours at ( Read more... )

Brown pinstripe suit w/lionels and Dunlops == Cobol programmer.

Ugh. Bad mojo.

(Though for the full effect, you'd want a knitted tie, real-ale beard and a copies of Practicals Caravan, Computing and Electronics in a 70s Sainsbury's carrier.)