Reading time: < 1 min In an ongoing effort to both lose weight and regain some level of fitness I’ve managed to drag out the elliptical trainer quite often over the past few weeks, and can now manage around 10km/20-odd minutes most nights. However it’s entirely based on my ability to find something on TV to divert my attention away,…
Reading time: 3 mins Popularity contests, I can’t stand them. All that gushing for verification, all that competition… sorry? I’m 10th??!! … Popularity contests, I LOVE THEM. Aren’t they great!!! For those that missed it, there was a mini-furore (a fure?) recently when a new site launched with the aim: … not so much to create a fuss about…
Reading time: < 1 min Awful awful news. Made more awful by the fact that it won’t be the last such occasion, yet they’ve failed to act in the past, twice (at the very very least). We will hear, yet again, that “guns don’t kill people”. We will hear, yet again, that “it is the right to choose”. We will…
Reading time: 2 mins Jamie Oliver. Love him or loathe him he has to be applauded for his current stance and activity surrounding school dinners. Firstly I think he is a genuine guy, and even if his “cheeky charm” and “mockney” attributes put you off, if you’ve seen any of his recent series (I only saw a couple of…
Reading time: 4 mins George Orwell, in Why I Write, suggested that there are “four great motives for writing”: Sheer egoism Aesthetic enthusiasm Historical impulse Political purpose Obviously there are many other more subtle reasons for wanting to write but on the whole I tend to agree. Obviously Georgie, as I like to call him (he hates it though),…
Reading time: < 1 min Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Wanting a leisurely evening we decided to forego the darker undertones of Constantine and tossed a coin for either Hitch or Robots. Robots it was (well it was tails as it happens) and we settled into our seats as the only adults no accompanied by a child…