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Tomorrow this blog is a whole year old, and I’m still not quite sure why I bother. But anyhoo… Didn’t quite fit into the bus to Granada, so ...

Or something. Whetever the Spanish is for "we are drunk". Hello from hot, sweaty Malaga bus station. We have just missed a bus to ...

"Is all my brain and body need..." Off to Spain 'cos someone who's almost family is getting hitched. And as we hurry ourse...

The football is coming and with it the usual silliness about how we used to be an Empire and had some wins last century. "We are unique...

"As the story goes, Mr. Guerrier, on an otherwise uneventful day, seated himself on a small barrel, then absentmindedly tapped out the ...

Someone recently voiced the old chestnut that we're most technologically innovative as a species during time of war. Of course, the imme...

Went to see the Da Vinci Code this afternoon, cos it was raining and we couldn't think of anything else. The Dr was laughing by the end...

“In any month in the USA, more people are killed than on 9/11 … In any year in Israel, more than 10 times more deaths will occur from road t...

This was originally a fanzine article, back when that was the only way to foist my blatherings on anyone. Then it went on my old site. And ...

As predicted , the old website has finally died so some of the earliest images on this 'ere blog will have sodden off too. Blimey. 

Spent the day mostly sieving 2,200 words about children down to more like just 770. Am now able to define "harm" and "conditi...

The Dr passed me "The cost of telling the truth" , Neil Garrett's account of what happened after he broke the story last year ...

Spent a fun afternoon in Ladbroke Grove yesterday, listening to actors do shouting. I was able to answer some of their questions, and advise...

Been a bit caught up in work and sorting other people out these last few days. Went to see X-Men: The Last Stand on Friday, which was good ...

Popped down to the shires to see family yesterday, getting work done on the train. Pretty pleased with the bit where someone hoots to see so...

The cat nipped into to HMV on Oxford Street yesterday to pick up a little something for the still off-sick Dr. I've spent the evening wo...

Up early this morning to be drowned on the way into Soho, where Patrick Stewart was doing his first promo stuff for the new X-Men film . I a...

What a beautiful episode - though the Dr denies that the posh frocks and cleavage qualify it as costume porn. (Afterwards, she got to watch ...

"Ps please buy some ‘no more nails’ on the way home x" Said M.’s txt yesterday afternoon. I was at work and there seemed to be no ...

...a great word? Things Stars Wars has taught me #87576. (Delighted to discover they're releasing the original versions of the original ...