Things that do make me proud of one of my adopted teams: Manchester City’s Bell End. Well done Colin and big smelly BOOs to John Wardle, who HATES FUN.[…]

Stuck on Scrabble! There’s nothing better than a complete and utter revelation within a sport. The moment where say, a football game goes from being a boring kick-about between a be-mulleted-giffer and scary German goalkeeper to an intricately […]

Red Wine VS White Wine: a recent ILE thread with a lot of poncing about different merlots and chardonnays and other such things which should stick to Footballer$ Wive$ but not a lot of help on my urgent and key white wine question: which is – h[…]

This morning: sign spotted in local greasy:
KNIVES AND FORKS ARE NOT TONICS! PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THEM AFTER YOUR MEAL!
Also – cup of tea in being 35 English Pence shocker! I have got too used to standing in Starbucks getting confused after order[…]

SEEN ON THE INTERWEB:
“The thing about seagulls exploding being unable to vent CO2 is not an urban myth, because I’ve seen it. If you give them bread with lots of bicarb on, they fly away, go wobbly, then wetly burst.”
Playground La[…]

Computer Science: UNPLUGGED! Site which promises method of teaching computer science completely sans lumbering behemoth of desktop equipment and bleary eye horror. I quite like the look of Count the Dots – Binary Numbers and The Poor Cartograph[…]

BarbieOS 1.0 available to download now!
Most girls up through adult women become frightened and confused, often hysterical when presented with a traditional command prompt,” Cesterino explained, “therefore the console program available t[…]

I was never a mahousive football supporter as a youth. Sure, I supported Manchester City, but that was only out of a complete and utter hatred for Manchester United, and being a fan of G. Kinkladze and the lovely blue shirts. Sure I supported Preston[…]

LESS ART MORE GOFFS: aka the new Gene Wolfe book is out on 1 January 2003. I mention this as part of my charity shop HAUL this lunchtime where I spent ‘7.50 on what must have been (ulp) fifteen books. To be fair they were only 50 English Pence […]

Celery lovers unite BUT DO NOT DRAG ME DOWN WITH YOU! Far better than rubbish stinky celery is celery ROOT, i.e, CELERIAC!! Now it’s root vegetable season again and we have a functioning oven I’m expecting lots of turnips, taters and inde[…]