Archive for April, 2005

Your opinion would count if we could just put a battery in this thing

Posted on April 21, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

This is a sign asking for customer feedback at a main tube station. The only problem is that the machine doesn’t work and hasn’t for days.

The Loch Ness Monster could just be a bunch of watering cans

Posted on April 20, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

Do you think it possible that the Loch Ness Monster could be just a bunch of old watering cans, somehow tied together, floating around under water, filled with bits of gravel to weight them strangely?
When I was in the market today I thought I saw a big green monster out of the corner of [...]

Hell’s Kitchen

Posted on April 20, 2005 ~ Filed Under Culture

There’s this very odd program on TV at the moment. It’s called Hell’s Kitchen and it’s on every night, featuring two teams of inexperienced chefs, working with a celebrity chef, in a restaurant and competing against each other for points. For reasons that are completely obscure to me, Sarah and I have watched for the [...]

“Oh Maud”, “oh Susan”, “oh watch out, he’s behind you!”

Posted on April 11, 2005 ~ Filed Under Culture, Diary

[spoiler alert - don't read this if you've got an overwhelming desire to know nothing of the plot of Fingersmith]
The last episode of Fingersmith was on TV last night and I was gripped! Not only by the refreshing sight of lesbian melodrama on TV (rather than just amongst my friends), but by the twists and [...]

Access is denied to your lifestyle

Posted on April 7, 2005 ~ Filed Under Diary

Sarah and I were at a loose end the other night, on the occasion of our seven year anniversary. We sat in Coffee Republic, drinking cups of tea, wondering what to do with our evening. Tired and unmotivated, neither of us were up for much, but thought we’d check out what was on at the [...]