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No longer living on your tax money…

You will be delighted that after five-some years of sponging off UK taxpayers’ money in one form or another, I will be in the future earning my crust by selling my soul, sweat and time to a major consultancy just round the corner as a Project Manager type dude. International travel included.
Now I [...]

My secret vice…

Ever since my enforced leisure time started, I’ve been happily able to indulge in two hours of my secret vice every weekday - repeats of Top Gear on television. For someone who’s constantly preaching to others about car usage and whose ideal dream car is a Toyota Prius, it seems odd - even to me [...]

Maybe we shouldn’t go jet-ski-ing…

Browsing around on the Colwyn Bay Jetski Club, take a look at this picture of the instructors and see if you can spot the thing that’s putting me off trying jet-skiing…

Never let me behind the wheels of a van

First off, sorry for disappearing from the digital world for oooh a month, but you’d be surprised how much time it takes to settle into a new fab home, complete with *two* washing-lines. And maybe a new houseguest, but I’ll tell you about that later!
Anyway, at the beginning of July it became time to move [...]

“you think I’m unemotional … I cried at the end of Terminator 2!”

I have been caught massively enthusing about the genius that is Spaced - the finest sitcom a pop-culture/nerdy obsessed person could ever possibly hope to have. Complete with strong characters all round. It’s so hip it hurts…
Anyway, skip to the end - and some kind soul has put up the first episode of Spaced online [...]