A morose Welshman who now lives in London, telling anecdotes about how behind-the-times things are West of the Severn Bridge.
No, it isn’t me down the pub, it’s Rhod Gilbert and his excellent show Knocking on Heavens Door. If stand-up comedy is your thing, I highly recommend you go see him at Soho theatre in a [...]
Back at work for a week now, and adjusting to the routine was not as much a pain as I feared it would be, given that waking up before noon had posed such a problem while on holiday…
Looks like the Missus is inheriting her Mum’s car. I am inheriting the wallet-deflating insurance and car tax. [...]
Not quite. But still, what have I been up to recently?
I was supposed to visit the in-laws a few weekends back but backed out to go and see Guns N Roses. In a nutshell: great show, but he turned up late again and I didn’t get home until 4. The ginger prick. Shared the nightbus [...]
I had a lovely weekend at home in Wales, as mentioned previously. Our journey there was marked my the presence of two know-it-all would-be boxing pundits, one of whom fell asleep with his hand on some other blokes knee.
In an effort to relieve boredom Louise and I initiated a game whereby you name a celebrity [...]
What with work-work and freelance-work book-ending my waking hours for the past few weeks it’s only as it winds down I’m finding myself with some free time to post here. I’ve made myself a tidy little sum, however I have no tangible evidence of that, thanks to a hefty council tax bill, renewing my travel [...]
My early present to myself was seeing Guns N’ Roses at Hammersmith Apollo on Wednesday night. In case you don’t know this, and in which case you’ve probably never talked to me, Guns N’ Roses are my favourite band. This makes my disappointment at their show two nights ago all the more disappointing. You see, [...]
Quite literally. An unexploded WW2 bomb has been found at a building site directly across the dock from me. It better not go off and interrupt my sleep.
Click this link. (and check out the OOOOOOLD photo when Canary wharf was the only big building in the distance)
So I went to Teddington Studios last night to watch the taping of the new TV show from the people that made Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place. The show was called Dean Learner Man To Man and is a spoof chat show. It is, very possibly, the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. There’s a rant about [...]
I have managed to get free tickets to three different TV tapings in the coming weeks. The first is a QI taping next Wednesday at South Bank studios. The second one - which I’m most excited about - is a taping of Dean Learner’s Man To Man at Teddington Studios. The third is a taping [...]
So my visit to the Planetarium was enjoyable but brief. Louise and I then got some of those new Creme Egg bars, which were as excellent as they sound.
It seems I successfully negotiated to keep my rent at it’s current rate for an extra year, saving myself the princely sum of £520. Unfortunately, that’s only [...]