The Rules Of Christmas

Rule One:If you have to make a train journey, you’ll regret it.
Having to stand in the train vestibule all the way from London to Torquay before Christmas was bad enough, but on the way back a journey that should have taken five hours took eight.
Eight hours! With a rat in a carry case, too! I [...]

Christmas Who

Christmas Day.
Doctor Who.
Fantastic!
And my love of it had nothing at all to do with David Tennant being bloody lovely, okay?
I need to watch him in Casanova again, right now.

A Christmassy Carol

Ah, London: how I love it, especially at this time of year. Strolling along the Thames in the brisk evening air and finding a merry-go-round jangling away next to the London Eye; listening to carollers at Marylebone station; avoiding the unholy crush that is a Regent Street stuffed full of frantic shoppers with desperation in [...]

That’s A Wrap! Or Not.

Oh dear.
Being that I’m somebody who’s pathologically organised, I finished buying all my Christmas presents three weeks ago and wrapped them up soon after. However, I didn’t have any gift tags, so in the meantime I left them in little piles so I’d know whose present was whose.
Unfortunately, since then they’ve been rearranged several times [...]

An Audience With Jack Black

Cripes. Woke up this morning to discover an oil depot in Hemel Hempstead had exploded and was pumping oily black smoke across the whole of London. I nipped down to Richmond Lock to get a better view and swear I saw the plume of smoke far off on the horizon – it’s bloody miles away, [...]

Moving Speech

The strangest thing just happened. I stopped off at my local Tesco store on my way home from work and, as I was queuing to pay for my healthy dinner (oh, alright, my loaf of bread and two chocolate bars), I felt the ground shake.
At first I thought my mobile phone was going off in [...]

Gorillas And Dolls

I’ve neglected this blog for a short while because things have been so manic, but I’m going to make up for it now. Be warned – this entry will be a monster!
Oh, and speaking of monsters…
King Kong.
I’ve seen it.
It’s glorious.
Nothing else but the Eighth Wonder of the World would have gotten me out of bed [...]

Excited? Moi?

Just a quick note to announce that I’m seeing King Kong at 10am tomorrow morning!
I haven’t read a single review, heard a single rumour, know of nobody who’s seen the finished film. So I’ll go in fresh, if you excuse the 20 mins I saw at the special preview the other day.
I’m so bloody excited [...]