Went and saw my current favs Peter, Bjorn and John at Dingwalls last night. Dingwalls is a skanky club next to the lock, just in front of the markets in Camden. It’s quite a famous club. I think U2 played one of their first London gigs ever there. I went along with Simon, my UK [...]

I’m sorry things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently. I’ve been packing stuff into boxes and transporting them to the outskirts of London. In the quest for a bigger backyard for Daisy and an office for me we have moved to Epsom. Now Epsom is not the most exciting part of the [...]

Every day of the working week, The Sun newspaper runs a picture of a topless girl on page three. Under the banner ‘News in Briefs’ the young lasses give their opinion on the big news story of the day. It is a testament to how highly regarded Steve Irwin is in these parts that today’s [...]

At 6.30 a.m. this morning my sister Melinda called me from Australia to tell me Steve Irwin had died. She’s not in the habit of ringing me every time an Australian icon passes away. It’s just that Steve Irwin was my dad’s boss. My dad is 66 and instead of retiring he took up the [...]