Holiday excitement and buying a wetsuit

Well, the excitement is building. Sarah and I have booked our surfing holiday and we’re heading off in a couple of weeks. We’re going back to Biarritz, largely so we can progress the French along with the surfing. It should be interesting going there slightly off season, and I’m curious to know if it’s going [...]

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There goes my disposable income

Oh dear, oh dear. This phone is gorgeous. I’ve been after a phone for a while now that includes a camera, bluetooth and tri-band in a clam shell. And, ideally, is also very sexy. This is it and I’m very excited but, as far as I can tell, it’s going to cost about £300, which [...]

“Happy Woman Blues” by Lucinda Williams

I’ve just been listening to “Happy Woman Blues” by Lucinda Williams and it’s fantastic. It’s a very early album, and similar in sound to her highly acclaimed album, “Lucinda Williams”. If you’re a fan, there are a few tracks you’ll recognise, and the version of “I’ve Lost It” is superb and stands up well against [...]

“You look like a man”

“You look like a man”. “She’s a lezza.” I keep my head down and continue on another quiet walk home from work. It can be hard to retain a sense of humour about things like that at the end of a long day trying to do the right thing. Sometimes life is just a bit [...]

The world of blogs

Occassionally, I lose days to surfing the internet. I’m desperately trying to make sure that today isn’t one of those days. It’s sunny outside, and not too hot, and the day is my oyster. So, it’s just darn silly to have spent the last couple of hours checking out sites and following links at random. [...]

West Wing Series 4 reaches C4 at last

I’m a huge fan of the West Wing and, along with many others, have been really let down by the way Channel 4 has shown it here in the UK. To begin with, West Wing was a flagship show, in a good slot of C4, but it didn’t get the audiences C4 had hoped for. [...]