The other month, I caved in and signed up for the Netflix because of Sense8. Which you should all watch ( Read more... )

No, really. It seems I went down quite well after all...

[FX: Runs about the place with jumper pulled over head.]

Of late, the telly has been filled with sportspeople banging on about emotions ( Read more... )

This evening we have no water.

It transpires that earlier in the day, some bloke turned up two doors down to mend the bog. He turned off all the stop-cocks he could find, did, er, something and beetled off again.

The people directly next door turned their water on again and all was well.

Our outside stop-cock is shared with the house-with-the- ( Read more... )

Were I thinking about spreading disinformation about the Occupy movement, this would be as good a place to start as any.Of course, one can only speculate about the source. Could be yer man there just pretending to be a dope-addled hippy for The Press, could be that someone else is using said handy dope-addled hippy as a conduit, could be a story ( Read more... )

One of the happy fun things about being post-migraine (as opposed to the shit ones like everything being two-dimensional and rather like award-winning animation from Czechoslovakia. Obviously the counter-example being 'The Mole', which is completely splendid ditto. I suspect the rot set in in this country when children's television became an excuse ( Read more... )

What to do for lunch when working for a living can be a social minefield ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should construct a life where I wander through pleasantly empty and welcoming boho bars while listening to New Order and pass through the slipstreams of curry houses on the way to somewhere else, using the passages that I find for myself rather than the ones the city provides.


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... Not even the sight of a bloke with a sock on his head, hiding his saucer-eyeness behind a set of Bolle safety glasses and trying not to look like a fat Marco Pantani can put them off running into the street in search of bargains.Under my bloody bike wheels ( Read more... )

“The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the west? You don’t need London.”

Which, um, might be an interesting outcome ( Read more... )