Happy Halloween!

Hmm. I bet I’m the only person in the whole damn world who calls their blog “Happy Halloween” this weekend…
I’m not really interested in Halloween, having thrown the Halloween party to end all Halloween parties when I was 12, way back in 1983. Everything since has been a let-down. Saying that, though, yesterday I popped [...]

Sad Leopard

Here’s the aforementioned sad leopard pic.
It won its category in the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year competition (“The World In Our Hands”) and I can’t believe it didn’t win the whole thing. Alessandro Bee deserved the top prize – everyone seemed to be talking about this poor kitty as we walked around the exhibition.
You know, [...]

Tired And Emotional

Okay. I’m emotional because I’ve just watched episode five of Lost’s second season and now I have to wait three weeks to see the next one. And I’m going to POP!
I’m tired because over the last three days I’ve done all this (deep breath):
1) Visited the Sir John Soanes Museum in Holborn and marvelled at [...]

Pottering About

Well, it’s all been happening. I go away for the weekend, have a wicked time, get home late on Sunday night and realise my lovely rat, Scamp, is desperately ill. So I head to the vet first thing on Monday morning to have her put to sleep, blub just enough to make a woman sitting [...]

Ricky Martyr

Jeez.
You try to play the latest Ricky Martin CD in your office and, from the response, anyone would think you’d just ripped your clothes off and danced a jig on the photocopier.
Philistines.

Ramblings

Three pointless ramblings for you.
(Two of them rather sexist and smutty – be warned)
One I had a text conversation with Biddy as I sat on the train to work yesterday. I was thinking about the two new episodes of Lost I’d watched the night before and texted her to say I think I’ve got the [...]

Namedropping

I went back to work today after six days off and thoroughly confused my co-workers by announcing I’d changed my surname from Dearsley to Nelson over the weekend. I swear, if one more person asks me if I got married I’ll go all Scanners on them – SPLAT! Still, can’t blame ‘em really; a wedding [...]

Michelangelo’s Frodo

Today I discovered two completely useless things: that a model tyrannosaurus rex can scare the shit out of me – and that Michelangelo’s famous sculpture of David looks just like Elijah Wood.
The T-rex roared at me from a dark corner of the Natural History Museum. Big, convincing and animatronic, it swung its head round [...]

Re-birthday

Yesterday was my 34th birthday and Christ on a bike, did I eat a lot of chocolate!
All my cards seemed to wish me the same two birthday presents: Ewan McGregor, Goran Visnjic or Rob Lowe in their respective birthday suits… or lots of chocolate. I ended up making do with the latter, seeing as Ewan, [...]