I have been meaning to try roller blading for about a decade now and have always procrastinated about actually doing it. Well, finally I have and it was loads of fun! Natalie and I went skating in Battersea Park this morning. Nat is a rollerskater (I think the technical term is ‘quadskates’ even though most [...]

Now my friend George has a blog. (Swandives). Hello George! Update (22/5/05): Okay, apparently this blog at LiveJournal is the one she is using most regularly.

I’ve had a wonderful, full weekend. Last night, my boyfriend and I, plus Natalie and Tash, went to see The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic and then, at 11 o’clock at night, we went to see the Turner, Whistler, Monet exhibition at the Tate! The fun continued today. After a solid sleep-in, I met [...]

The Department of Foreign Affairs in Australia has sent out this dodgy travel advisory, warning about the dangers of travelling to Perth. Oh dear. How embarrassing.

According to an email doing the rounds: Today is the official Slap Your Irritating Co-workers Day. Do you have a co-worker who talks non-stop about nothing, working your last nerve with tedious and boring details that you don’t care about? Do you have a co-worker who ALWAYS screws up stuff, creating MORE work for you? [...]

It’s been almost two months since we went to Paris for a romantic get-away. What a magical, wonderful city! We spent three days there and vowed to return very soon. Paris exceeded our expectations in every way. The city has been eulogised and mythologised to such an extent that I have to confess we were [...]

It’s been six months since our chief exec told us that our company, Quantum Business Media, was looking to sell. The venture capitalist who funded the business wanted his money back so they either had to sell the business or sell all the magazines separately. Since the beginning of this year, various deals have been [...]

My mate Stephen Brook (who I worked with at The Australian) has this article on the Tory election advertising campaign up on the Media Guardian website. In it, Margaret Thatcher’s top PR adviser Lord Bell has criticised the campaign saying it failed to produce “a single memorable advertisement” and focused too much on core voters [...]

According to this story on The Independent, one in five species of British wildflowers is at risk of extinction. The Indy, which does a lot of good environmental coverage, splashed with the story but The Guardian is also carrying its own version. Even common species such as the corn buttercup are believed to be at [...]

Here’s my random blog topic for the day – a photographer that specialises in taking arty black and white photos of celebrities’ feet (mostly enclosed in shoes). If you ever wondered what Alice Cooper or Bjork’s feet look like, here’s your chance to find out. The photographer, Roland Owsnitzki, a German, claims he’s not a [...]