Walking along Stokes Croft today, bumped into Rowdy, who is sorting out the Emporium for their next exhibition. Running from 26/9/9 to 8/10/9, Great Birds in Bristol.

Outside the Canteen at Coexist, underneath the Banksy's Mild Wild West, there's a hand painted banner about dangers of ketamine that looks as if it's been put together by one of the ( Read more... )

A colleague is off to the Centre for Infections at Colindale for some training and wanting to book a hotel overnight in central London with good access to the Northern line, or close to the site. Top budget for within M25 is £100 per person per night.

Can any of you suggest tried and trusted hotels?

Mrs. Trump of Country Markets (WI stall at the Farmers Market every other week) is off on her hols. She makes a wonderful carrot cake, which helps us at the office get through the week. In her absence, I've asked my colleagues what sort of cake they'd like. This has gained absurd momentum and developed into a song/TV show/franchise, 'Cake of ( Read more... )

Been a long time since a proper full-on-dirty-bonkers-electronica-assault down the Black Swan. Burned out from work, I shambled up Stokes Croft to get my butty, and spotted this ( Read more... )

Today I am in the Gloucestershire offices, which is a damn sight better than Wiltshire. Getting busy with stuff, in a good way. Hopefully back in Bristol tomorrow.

Going to try to angle for next week off ...

Looks as if I'm going to be punching 12 hour days and not having weekends for a while. The situation is getting better, but having to put the fears of Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Dr/Prof Public to rest, on top of case management does take a fair bit of time.

Irrespective, I'll secure time for Cafe Maitreya's Tasting Menu evening on Thursday 21st May ( menu ( Read more... )

Today's award for scaremongering goes to the Daily Mail for this beauty:

How swine flu could be a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear warfare.

Forget about swine flu, we've got an outbreak of flaccid upper lip.

Well there's a lots of not very nice things going on at the minute with work and the world, plus I can't shake the beautiful but bleak Only Death Can Save Us by The Master Chaynjis out of my head ( Read more... )

Looks like there's a work do to Jamie Oliver's Italian Restaurant in Bath (menu) early next month. Have any of you eaten there before?

Was hoping to pop over to Demuths towards the end of the April for that month's leg of the gastronaut challenge. Who would like to join me?

Lounging and listening to Radio 4.

You and Yours (should be a live listen again link soon) is on at the mo. There's some interesting discussion on targets and Key Performance Indicators. One common element is how they generate a culture of distrust.