If anyone can tell me what this is, or where I took it, I'd be very impressed. ...

So the people who do my printing took me out to the the races in York on Wednesday. I told my boss they were having an 'open day' rather than specifying that they were actually taking me to the races, and I've been avoiding him since then in case he asks me how it all went. How it all went was they broke out the champagne on the train to York and didn't let up until the end of the day. The box ...

I wasn't originally going to tell ya'll about this because frankly it's not a story that puts me in a particularly good light. However it had a kind-of odd epilogue yesterday which has prompted me to reveal all, in spite of my shame. So the other week Ade and my two wonderful flatmates all went to see The Pipettes (who were delightful, as always- if you haven't seen them, do check out their vide ...

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Here's a meme, nicked from Pix some long time ago and then promptly forgotten about until now. Head on over to flickr for an annotated look at my bookshelf, and feel free to add any notes you feel are appropriate. The thing is, though, I don't like holding onto books once I've read them. In fact, if I think they're any good, I usually do my darndest to give them to someone else and insist they ...

This is cool. Grok, the band that I am in, has been asked (yep, they came to us, we didn't even lobby for it) to play at a live music festival. I am in a little bit of shock about this. I mean, we've only played before a live audience twice, we don't have any songs, and we practice maybe twice a month if we're lucky. We seem to have fallen ass-backwards into a gig that most bands would fight tooth ...