I'm in Bruges. I am hungover.

Last night ended a few hours ago with some kind of magnolia-coloured vanilla spirit which according to two girls I was out with had the ‘look and consistency but sadly not the taste’ of semen (whether that means semen should taste more vanilla-y or spirits should taste more seminal I'm not quite sure, well no, I am), ( Read more... )

I am in London again, just for a couple of days. Work suddenly gave me some leave and, on the spur of the moment pretty much, I decided to come over and try and meet up with some friends I haven't seen for ages. Unfortunately this backfired, since most of them, understandably I suppose, found that 48 hours wasn't enough notice to clear up their ( Read more... )

It's been an uncharacteristically sociable weekend over here. After the monk juice episode of Friday night - thank you all for your comments - oh and by the way, that weird thing on my nose I was telling you about? Woke up Saturday morning and it was gone. Bizarre.

By the time we'd got over our hangovers yesterday it was time to go out again - up ( Read more... )

Well, I meant to post while I was away - I've been in Switzerland, skiing - but I just didn't want to, and now that I've got around to sitting down at a computer, all the observations that had built up have kind of dissolved away. The travelling has been ridiculous recently, because as soon as I came back I was flying off to Devon for a work thing ( Read more... )

The coverage of what the press like to call the "race for the White House" - as if the candidates set off from Iowa and are literally sprinting towards Washington (now that would be a neat way to settle it) - is quite amazing to me considering the election isn't till when? -November is it?  That's nearly a year away, yet it's still all over the ( Read more... )

London seemed grey and tired all afternoon yesterday, the city was just in one of those winter moods. I think the capital suffers from Seaonal Affective Disorder. I mooched around the streets trying vaguely to look for Christmas presents, but ended up just going to various coffee shops and people-watching. In Starbucks I met a girl from Bulgaria ( Read more... )