The Old Vic is showing a play called The Soldier’s Tale at the moment. It’s only for a week and tickets were really cheap. I didn’t know much about it but I was intrigued enough to book tickets and the boy and I went along tonight. Big mistake! It was awful! I guess one of [...]

I was born in the Year of the Dragon (fire element) and here is what my third Year of the Dog has in store for me. General Situation You’ll devote much of your time and energy to the task of bringing to a successful conclusion the projects that you have your heart set on, but [...]

We love having people come to visit us in London. This weekend we had Ben staying with us – he has been working in Holland and decided to have a weekend in London before returning home. It was a double treat because Misty was in London to visit Jules and the five of us hung [...]

I’ve been either busy or lazy depending on whether you want to give me the benefit of the doubt but either way I haven’t yet written about our trip to Prague, which is now two and a half months ago! We went at the beginning of November and while it was starting to get cold, [...]

I finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce this afternoon and felt that I should immediately turn back to page one and start again. I enjoyed the novel and it’s not particularly difficult to understand but I had this constant feeling that I was missing something, as if I [...]

I’m largely ignoring Australia Day today. I had various invitations to various Walkabouts – a chain of Aussie-themed pubs – but it involves queues and crowds and beer in plastic cups so I decided to give it a miss. However, I did meet up with Natalie, Tash, Kimberley and Cameron for a drink at the [...]

No not a baby, but my new Apple laptop has arrived. It’s awesome! Tweet

I was in the Media Week office today. It was a little surreal having to sign in at reception and sit at a different desk and use a temp email address and yet call all my old contacts. However, it was quite a pleasant and productive day and the new news editor seems nice. I’m [...]

The whale has died. Now I am sad. Tweet

I always get terribly impressed and stupidly proud of Sydney’s beautiful harbour whenever I hear about whales and dolphins cavorting just off the shore from the Opera House. But I never thought I’d hear about a whale swimming up the Thames past Westminster. Is it lost? Is it sightseeing? Is it a diplomatic emissary trying [...]