Jimi must be smiling down from heaven

At such heartfelt toilet-graffiti based appreciation

Bought two cookbooks today

I now have 6. Still can't cook for shit, but they look nice on my bookshelf.

Coming to the (Credit) Crunch

Where will it all end? I've been watching the news with the slack-jawed expression of an inbred redneck over the past few days, as one venerable financial institution after another bites the dust in spectacular style.

The whole thing is mental - these gleaming dons of capitalism succumbing to the ordinary rank and file of working class America, as countless defaulted mortgage payments suddenly ...

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Finally nailed it

It may not be very quick, and I may be several weeks too late, but I finally managed to go for a run tonight and maintain a consistent pace. I wasn't even too knackered at the end of it. My grand plan, such as I have one, is to maintain a decent level of fitness in the future, rather than failing to exercise for two years like last time. If, as I still plan, I end up running a marathon next ...

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What's on the menu today?

At least they're honest at the staff canteen....

All's quiet on the South Eastern front

Not blogged much recently... To be honest, it's cos life is so dull that I have absolutely nothing to tell you about. Well, that's not strictly true, although my days seem to involve working and playing on the Playstation of late. Work is actually going alright for once - although I have the uneasy feeling that things are going too well.... It's surely only a matter of time before some ...

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Who needs doctors?

When squeezing one's thumb like a spot has the same effect?

21st century cosmopolitan London

I'm currently on the night bus wending my way through central london. Looking out at the shops and people, with the excitement in their eyes that shows they've not been long here, i felt gutted that i don't venture up here more often, and adamant that i was going to do it more regularly. Then some blonde chick two seats behind me chucked up all over the bus, and i just wanted to be at home. Only 40 minutes to go.

Kids today.

I'm sharing a late night bus ride with some entertaining underage drunk kids. You know the kind, obviously from a horribly rich family, look a bit trendy yet a bit dopey, feel the need to share their pre-pubescent half-formed opinions with everyone present. Oh joy! They've got off to be instantly replaced by a gaggle of whiny californian girls. God i love shoreditch at 1 in the morning.....

Thumbs up

I've somehow got my thumb infected and it's swollen to around twice its normal size. In a vague attempt to sort it out, I looked up NHS Direct's website a few moments ago for a bit of advice. "Sore swollen thumb" returned no results, so I just looked for "Thumb".

And the "relevant" pages it found?

How do I use a condom? - Health Questions - NHS Direct

...tip of the condom between your forefinger ...

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I wouldn't start from here

I wasn't quite sure why I felt prompted to spunk £9 on an impulse buy at Belfast airport the other week, but now I think it may have been fate. After a shaky start (in my uninformed, only-read-10-books-in-the-last-5-years view) which seemed a bit over-written - you know, sentences that are too long, with lots of punctuation and similie, plus a bit of comedy metaphor thrown in for good measure - ...

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Islands in the sun

If you follow the comments under my post about St Helena a few weeks ago, you'll notice that a lovely and unexpected thing happened. Obviously the locals are avid readers of all things Saint-related and were on my post in a flash - first of all someone asked about the archeological dig my friend was on, then a chap got in touch to give me some more background on the situation.

We got into a bit ...

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Training. Thunder Storms. Shoddy organisation. Pain. Done.

Yup, the 10K is over and jolly well done by all concerned too....

Sunday dawned bright and sunny, humidity reaching uncomfortable levels as I wended my way northwards to the home of football. Arriving at 4pm, we ensured we were in plenty of time to dump our bags in the "limited" bagging area at Wembley Arena - admittedly, in hindsight, it should have been obvious that there would be more than ...

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