Category: Misc

In neither of these two incidences should I have felt guilty, but in both I did – irrationally. On Monday I was on the tube and there was a spare seat, but I didn’t bother sitting down. A few stops later, another seat was freed up, and for no good reason I sat down. Then…

So as the book thing in the top left hand corner says, I’m currently reading “The Way We Live Now”. There was an excellent passage I was reading on the way home last night, detailing how 200 tickets to a dinner that Melmotte was giving to the Emporer of China were to be allocated. It…

Nor Any Drop To Drink (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge). I got back today to find that I had no water. But not only me – everyone in this part of Enfield is suffering. I was told this by the guy in the Co-op, although he seemed quite keen to sell…

I was sitting down earlier, finishing off The Life of Pi in the heat of my living room, when I heard an argument through my open back window. I listened a little, and it sounded like someone was going to do some serious injury to someone else. There were at least two pleading voices saying…

This is amazing! A group have taken about 150 years of Old Bailey transcripts (well summarisings), scanned, catalogued, databased, and put on a website. And it’s all free with seemingly no catches. A few weeks back I visted the London 1753 exhibition at the British Museum a few weeks back (entry seems to be sadly…

If you happen to be in Bruges and are looking for something to do, I can thoroughly recommend going on a cycling tour with Jos from Quasimundo. But get there early for the big men’s bikes!

With print deadlines being very early, Andrew Collins would not have learnt of the death of Katharine Hepburn when he penned this week’s “Bigger Picture” in the Radio Times. He’s chosen Bringing Up Baby, which as I said the other day, I love. A nice piece (not online as far as I can see) detailing…

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a copy of Total DVD magazine – in the main because it had a complete copy of Alex Cox’s film Straight to Hell. I rushed out for my 3.99 copy of the magazine and disc. Well it turns out that although Alex Cox didn’t know about this,…

Sadly Katherine Hepburn has died at the age of 96. She’s easily one of my favourite actresses of all time. Films such as Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and Woman of the Year from the thirties and forties are just wonderful. Then there were all the films with Spencer Tracey. CNN has a nice…

Nice big piece in today’s Guardian Review about the phenomenom that is Haruki Murakami.

Well I’ve been trying something different this week. I can save a third on my travel costs if I get an overground only train ticket. That means that I have to travel in to Kings Cross, and head off on foot, but this has a bonus of being some actual exercise – with a half…

OK – I bit the bullet. I bought a breadmaker – a ridiculously cheap breadmaker. I got it from Woolies for �19.99. They’d reduced it successively from �39.99 to �29.99 to �24.99, until finally I deemed it cheap enought. I bought some flour, yeast and other bits and bobs, and as I type, I’m theoretically…