Went to Lambert’s on Sunday for lunch. I’d been meaning to check it out for a while, passing it on the way home from work quite often, and Al’s visit seemed a good opportunity. I’m keen on there being a good “modern Brit[…]

What the hell was I doing drinking in LA. At twenty past six. In the morning. Staving off the hangover I suppose. Crispian had been away for a long period of time, and I wondered if he was getting some sort of vendetta against the film studios out of[…]

the slut = Blanche = Bono the “innocent” = Rose = Larry Mullenthe cynic = Miranda =The Edgethe sophisticated center = Dorothy = Adam Clayton
and many similar elegant mappings[…]

I was always afraid as a child of coming across a kids book where a lead character would be called Qwerty Uiop. As much as I enjoyed The Phantom Tollbooth I was well aware of where this, and Lewis Carroll’s, mixture of fun and learning would ta[…]

There was a brief moment, when the Booker longlist came out, that I thought what it would be like to read them all. It would be a good challenge. Even more challenging considering ONE OF THEM ISN’T EVEN OUT YET (this drum will continue to be ba[…]

Two things you would never think would go together. Nokia have recently had their 15 second film competition, with a special section for films made on camera phones. But they aren’t the only people at it. In what appears to be a response to the[…]

The most repeated joke doing the rounds yesterday at the Grange ground in Edinburgh was that the only thing stopping Scotland from being a Test side was the impossibility of ever having 5 days without rain. Not that that has ever stopped England mind[…]

California apparently knows how to party. Which would probably explain why much of the countryside was a wasteland with just the odd beer can and paper-cup knocking about. Considering the number of people who lived their, a party that size would requ[…]

Its been a while during which various arrangements were made, but finally the basic details of FOOD SCIENCE DAY can be outlined. An idea patched together on the night of Rob Bolton’s leaving party, you could not stop some of our foodie friends […]

Whose power is to absorb (Do You See!). Bah an nine year old could invent a better monster than that! Or at least, that monster. The parasitic relationship that Blue Peter always had with Doctor Who continues apace. In a “design a monster&#8221[…]