Thought for the day

Reading time: < 1 min The date has grabbed the headlines, it’s all over the news but still no-one is asking the question. What the HELL do they coat the outside of bagels with? It manages to reach super-thermal temperatures after only a few minutes toasting, making the extraction of said bagel, from said toast, bloody painful.

All at once

Reading time: 2 mins Funny how it happens, call it coincidence, call it fate, call it pain in the arse timing, but why ohh why ohh WHY do these things happen?! I’ve been invited to a birthday party, and I’d really like to go. Unfortunately it’s in London and, on the day in question, I’ll be in Spain. I’m…

Fatal FOPP

Reading time: < 1 min It never EVER fails. No matter how much music I have, a visit to FOPP always brings more. Yesterday saw me return to work with: R.E.M. – Reckoning John Lee Hooker – Don’t look back (compilation) Sibelius – Symphony No.5, Finlandia, Tapiola and Valse Triste as performed by the Berlin Philharmonic And all for less…

Righteous Rubbish

Reading time: < 1 min Never one to pass up a free book, most of which come via my parents, I have an ever growing “to be read” pile that is currently tottering at an alarming level. So, lest it fall over and kill someone I’ve started to work through it. Now, I should explain that I have two ‘sets’…

Air Frivolous

Reading time: 2 mins It’s all his fault, him and his “old skool kicksology“. Although I guess I could work a little harder on the willpower front… Let’s rewind a little. I enjoy playing basketball, but don’t get much chance these days. Many moons ago I used to play every Sunday night, and my idol, like every basketball fan…

I am…

Reading time: 2 mins … working on a WordPress theme and finding it both easier than I thought, at times, and decidely harder than it should be, at times. My design-fu is failing me. … looking for an instrumental version of “Holding Out for a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler in MP3 format. Ideally it’d be the version from Shrek…