I’ve just come back from seeing Monty Python alumni Michael Palin and Terry Jones in the flesh. They were subject to a Q&A at the BFI as part of a screening of a recently discovered print of three episodes of their pre-Python offering The Complete And Utter History Of Britain. Monsieurs Palin and Jones were [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 22, 2008
Clowns To The Left Of Me, Quick Notes To The Right
A few days ago, within the space of one hour, I was witness to two crimes, both of them attempted theft. As I got out of the train at the end of my journey back from town and school, I saw an old woman disembarking from another carriage hysterically screaming “That’s my bag! Let go!” [...]
June 15, 2008
Victoria Hollandia
Paul and I went to see Holland defeat France 4-1, including an amazing goal by Arjan Robben less than a minute after France’s only riposte. The Dutch pub we planned to go to was too crowded so we ended up in an Irish one. We stayed there for the first half before even that crowd [...]
June 9, 2008
Popping Out For A Quick Note
Some days I want to strangle every single bureaucrat with their own red tape.
For a while now I’ve been trying to find a way to get out of my contract with Foxtons, who I’ve in the process found out have the worst reputation of any large real estate agency in London. So sayeth the internet, [...]
June 3, 2008
All Buses Come At Once
Once again – apologies for the lack of updates. The reason is what it has always been – there’s simply too much writing to be done that I’m being marked on to leave much time for my blog, which I’m only being marked on by that niggling guilty feeling at the back of my brain.
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