Category: life

Someone in my office had a visit from the ergonomics police earlier this afternoon. I’d been feeling fine, but having half-overheard their conversation I’ve been getting all sorts of psychosomatic twinges in my back and wrists.

I’ve just got Nigerian spam that claims to come from Barclays in Lombard St, London. I suspect that postmaster@barclays.co.uk might be interested in this.

We played Perudo last night for the first time for years. We used to play it a lot but somehow we got out of the habit. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy playing it. I may, of course, be slightly biased because I won the three games that we played. Hope we play it again… Continue reading Perudo

Every day as I walk to work I go past a telescope shop. When I was younger I was fascinated by astronomy, so this brings back many memories. It’s almost tempting to buy a huge telescope but, of course, one of the few disadvantages of living in London is the complete lack of anything resembling… Continue reading Telescopes

Apparently Diana knew ten months in advance that she was going to have an “accidental” car crash. I love conspiracy theories.

A couple of things that have made me wince in the last day or so. Yesterday at Farringdon tube station there was a hand-written sign proudly declaring that “Kings Cross station is re-open”. Then this morning on the TV news I heard someone talking about the England vs Turkey football match which is apparently taking… Continue reading Broken English

I love it when I get intelligent comments like this left on the site. It makes it all feel worthwhile.

Why don’t Americans[1] write down times in the same broken order that they use for dates? You say “ten past eleven”, so why isn’t that 10:11? [1] And that raises another question – why isn’t there a noun that means “people from the USA?”

My stepdaughter needs to travel from home (zone 3) to college (zone 1) every day. As she’s 16 she is too old to get child rate fares on London Underground. Therefore we’ve bought her a monthly travelcard[1] which cost just under £90. Then last week she comes home with a form from London Transport which… Continue reading Young People’s Travel

Oh look. It seems I have an interview for a job at the Guardian. I’m going in to see them tomorrow morning. Anyone know Nik Silver and can have a quiet word with him for me?