My spidey sense is tingling

I went out this evening to have a look at the flower pots I stuck in the middle of the lawn about a month ago. Picking them up, I wasn't quite prepared for the devastation underneath - it would appear that snow followed by pissing rain followed by hot sunshine does not a happy lawn make. Not when trapped under a kilo of soil and plastic anyway. I notice a few spider babies on the ground when I ...

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This isn't going well

My choice of "career" is severely limiting my training schedule at the moment, as I haven't been home before 8pm for the past week. All to try to get through the mountain of work I have to to before the boss gets back on Monday. Starting to get quite nervous now - what with the weekend pretty much written off in terms of training due to the football tomorrow night followed by - well, Friday, ...

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Gogol on the horizon again

I've just about recovered from Gogol Bordello in time to buy tickets to see them again - although not until the end of August. Get Loaded in the Park - my annual flirtation with outdoor music - is rolling round again, and the boys from Eastern Europe via New York are on the bill. I was debating going this year, as I've been for the past four and thought perhaps I'd try to finally make it to the ...

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The wind in your hair, the spring fragrance in your nostrils, the crippling tight chestedness

ah, the open road. Just me and 3km of suburban pavement.... It actually felt really good to finally get my underused trainers back on and go for a run last night. The air felt and smelled really springlike and fresh, and I do, admittedly, live in a very nice part of London - a far cry from being chased round the park by belt-wielding 12 year olds like the last time I was training. My route takes ...

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Back in training

And looking a bit "special", it would appear. Have picked up my first injury - a beer gut strain.

Ever have one of those days

Where you're feeling a bit down, like the world's against you and nobody understands?

And then you talk to a few other people, and realise your problems are but insignificant blackheads on the forehead of life. Today was one of those days.

Rickmob!

great idea, shame about the singing! spreading a warm fuzzy glow through the Friday evening Liverpool Street commuters, a small but good natured flash mob assembled at 6pm on the dot to belt out "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. The chorus was sung with gusto but the verses found some of the mob wanting. In keeping with my extrovert nature, I found a spot safely out of the way where I could watch and not sing a single note, leaving that to Craig and the others on the ground floor of the station. I think there were probably as many spectators as singers, including a large number of bemused looking police officers....

The pub i'm in...

.... Has feta cheese in the toilet

Mmmmmummy's going to be very cross with you....

"Cross? Whatever for?"

"Cos that's her Fairy Liquid for her hands"

"Oh you, you precocious little bitch. I'm not even your real father, I don't want to have to put up with this...."

Funny how random ads from the 80s pop into your head for no apparent reason.

Now hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face.... with mild, green, fairy liquid.....

Better than Ainsley Harriott any day.

I'm no doctor

But i don't think my cheese grating injury looks particularly healthy

Whilst we're on the subject of internet searches

I was checking Google Analytics tonight and spent a few minutes checking out how people found my site via search engines - other than by typing tattie in, of course.

The results were somewhat disturbing, but very amusing. An abridged list, in order of how many times they directed someone to tattie central:

1) "kick up the arse" allnighter
2) ging ging ging ge ging
3) bella spaghetti
4) ...

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Tattie rising....

I'm the second most famous tattie in the world now, if Google is anything to go by......

Sash!! Aaaaaaahhhhhh!

I found this thoroughly amusing when I stumbled across it whilst working hard this afternoon.... I saw it as a slightly embarrassing attempt by an out-dated sect to try and recruit members to bolster their aging, ailing brand of divisive doctrine (check out the alliteration in that sentence!). I have to say, though, I thought the suggestions for a superhero that missed out to the eventual ...

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Walking in a Spring wonderland

err.... I was stood in the sunshine in a t-shirt 48 hours ago. Bloody global warming.

The seed-planting/running/leaving my warm room is postponed once again....

Oh Lordy

What a gig.

I'm still absolutely spent 24 hours later. Easily the best concert I've been to in London and one of the best I've ever been to. I managed to pleasantly surprise myself that I am not, in fact, too old and sensible to get wonderfully sweaty moshing at gigs these days - I just hadn't been to see the right band. One of the great things about last night was that every person in the place ...

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Where's the vodka?

Am looking forward to tomorrow night - am going to see the mighty Gogol Bordello at Brixton Academy! I've managed to miss them on the two previous occasions they've been playing here so wasn't going to let it pass me by this time around. First saw them at Roskilde in 2006 and knew nothing about them - apart from having previously heard "Start Wearing Purple" and liking it but not knowing who it ...

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Training postponed again

Due to being stuck in work til 7pm this evening.

I had the opportunity to play footie in the park to improve my stamina but it kicked off at 6.30, so couldn't make it. And after I bought a new pair of footballer trainers at the weekend and everything.

They're lovely - Diadora in "gun metal and silver", which cost a mighty £12 from the discount sports shop on Oxford Street. They're not as bad as they sound, honest.

Amazing what you learn reading over other people's shoulders on the bus

Only 42% of kids in Lambeth are white.

1/3 of white 16-24 year olds in Lambeth have a degree

I wasn't being racist by focusing on the white category by the way - it was at the top of the page and was all I could read. Was gonna tap the guy on the shoulder to move a bit but didn't think he'd appreciate it.

I found the perfect vehicle for my road trip round Europe

It was parked outside the British Museum yesterday. I was totally smitten with the retro washing machine repair sign and old skool East German charm. Not sure J would agree.