almost witty

My longtime mate Mosh, out of some mis-guided desire to do something good for children in Vietnam, is going to walk 1000 miles from Monaco to Newcastle via Italy, Switzerland and France. As yer do.
So whatever spare money you have, please consider sponsoring him - it’ll warm the cockles of his huge heart when he’s [...]

As a Brit, one of the most heinous crimes I can commit in society is to jump the queue at any given place. It’s rude, impolite and smacks of ideas above your station. And yet, this happened to me today.
I was queueing at the petrol station, patiently waiting for the car in front to finish [...]

Stumbled into work today to find four sheep cheerfully munching away at the sodden green grass opposite the ye olde mansion house I currently work in. Something you wouldn’t see in your average workplace, I’d have thought!

Maybe it’s intensely wrong of me, but …
Whilst doing some random surfing, I found myself listening to the BBC London News ident. Thus I suddenly found myself on my desk grooving to it a la Tyres O’Flaherty in Spaced, as if it was the latest groovy Pet Shop Boys tune … can you spot the [...]

My spacious one-bed flat in Shepherds Bush will soon be up for rent to a lucky individual or couple, so I thought it was high time that I arranged for a wee bit of maintenance on the place.
My sister (the current tenant) has been reporting that the shower doesn’t work any more, so I told [...]