A quick advert: a few times, people have said to me that they'd love to try rapper dancing, but that they're a bit scared because they're never done anything like it and they'll be crap. At the moment we have a few new people starting with Mabel Gubbins, and at least one of them has never even seen rapper dancing before. So, if you're female[*], ( Read more... )

Wow. It's very exciting. At least, it is if you're me. For the first time that I've ever noticed, Jez Lowe is playing in London. On Friday ( Read more... )

FAO hirez, plus anyone else who wants to archive their LJ...

Short version: Someone has updated the LJArchive code, and it now works beautifully again :) Details and download here: http://www.memory-prime.de/lja/LJa.html

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At least once a week, I trundle straight from work onto a train and head off to a dance practice. Being the sort of person who likes meals at nice regular intervals, I pick something up in the station as I pass through. A few years ago, that basically meant Burger King or Upper Crust. These days there are the heady alternatives of M&S Food and ( Read more... )

Blimey. Now that I don't share a house with Frances any more, these things sneak up on me...

She's got another book out

I know virtually nothing about it, but it's pretty much bound to be brilliant. The last four were ;)

A friend of mine does PR for Yeo Valley, who make yoghurts. Or maybe she does blogging and copywriting for them. Or some form of other freelance stuff. Actually, I concede, I have no idea what it is she actually does for them. The net result, as far as I'm concerned, is that she sporadically wants me to go to her house and eat yoghurt and have ( Read more... )

When the news this morning announced that Barclays Bank was embarking on a "fundraising programme", did anyone else immediately envisage an extensive, nationwide outbreak of coffee mornings, raffles and fun-runs ( Read more... )

I think most of the Cambridge people who read this have actually moved, but just in case...

A while back I wrote about going to see The Book Of Job: The Musical, which I enjoyed immensely. There's a performance of it in Trinity College on Sunday night, and anyone who wants an entertaining evening for a few quid (and isn't offended by people ( Read more... )