I’m Trying. Honest.

Too… tired… to… write…
Will… post… something… soon… effort… too… much… right… now…
Busy, oh so busy…
…Sorry!
Have a lolcat while you wait:

“You, as a penguin, are in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood.”

Ever seen a penguin get knighted? Check out the BBC footage here.

Rise, Sir Nils Olav. May you never need to be picked up.

Of Platypodes and Puggles

I’m a big fan of Cuteoverload.com, visiting their site every day for my fix of all things cute, cuddly and snorglable (and that’s totally a real word). As if I didn’t love them enough already, a couple of days ago they printed this picture:

Which, aside from being cute as all hell, introduced me to the [...]

“I name that tune in, uh, twenty years…”

I have spent the last twenty years of my life looking for a particular piece of music I heard in my childhood. It’s beautiful beyond words: a lonely, wooden flute repeating four notes in a rising crescendo, peaking as an orchestra of violins takes over to create one of the prettiest noises you’ll ever hear [...]

Learning Curves

You may recall me mentioning the wonders of London’s Natural History Museum on this blog before – many times, in fact, because I go there a lot. After all, it looks like this:

Which makes it, in my book, the prettiest building in London. And then you go inside and find this:

Which tells you that it’s [...]

Believe It… Or Not

[NB: There are no spoilers in this post!]
I found myself in a terrible dilemma on Wednesday night.
At 6pm I was standing in a scorching hot Leicester Square, about to meet my friend Matt to attend the press screening of a film called Tropic Thunder, and I had to decide whether to join him… or whether [...]