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Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

RE: It looks like West is best for London, long term

well i think it depends on whereabouts in london you want to end up? personally I would think west is best - as that gives you more options for london bridge, waterloo and charing cross. the thing is, i would try to live fairly near the station you ...

Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.

Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte...

Fullsome weekender

Well I say full, full of pubs really. Friday night we stayed in, so as to have more energy for going out on Saturday. We had a trip to Canterbury in the day (and you'll never guess where we had lunch), no actual christmas shopping, but we went in a c...

Boo

We didn't get in to QI yesterday, it was hugely over subscribed and we didn't turn up early enough. We got close to the front of the queue, but not close enough, bah. We had a smashing pizza express though, and a few drinks in different pubs around W...

Chops!

Started the weekend with a super rarity, drinks in Farringdon. Been trying to meet up with a couple of the Fareham boys who are commuters too and work in the area, and this week no-one had a good excuse not to do it, so it's all on - To The Eagle. It...

Off to Twickenham today

It's going to take a while to get there (gotta get a bus to Ashford), but not this long I don't think - half hour to walk from Waterloo East to Waterloo?Sure to be that sort of pace on the way home though... Look out for us on the TV!...

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I like Shed Boat Shed

This was my favourite of the Turner Prize Entries, it really stood out, a deserved winner I reckon. I clearly didn't like it enough to blog about it, but I swear I picked it out at the beginning. Also Antony and the Johnsons, I tipped them to win the...

My gigography

Getting there with my gigography now, a list of every gig I've been to, from 1987 up to last year. It's a natural progression from my Best Gigs Ever post. Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing. I have chucked in details from the big bag o...

Rugby weekend

JOYOUS journey to Twickenham on Saturday morning, looks like being on the 09.30 from Folkestone, change at Ashford, on the 09.54 to Waterloo and then on the 11.28 to Twickenham, arriving 11.51... Hmm, boring yeah, this is for my calendar though.UPDAT...

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Waterloo and shitty line more like

My new way of getting to the train (Chancery Lane - Tottenham Court Road - Charing Cross) was pretty quick yesterday but THE STORM on the way to the tube was frightening! AND, this morning, I tried coming via the Waterloo and City line, and it sucked...

I used to do Clerkenwell-Cannon Street and it's pretty easy - 521 bus from Chancery Lane tube/ Holborn Viaduct, or failing that, I think a 17 does it too.It's walkable as well, and Moorgate station is only 10 mins (brisk!) walk from Cannon Stret.Fail...

Nice weekend, good to spend some time with friends in Winchester. The journey there wasn't so fun, guess things run slower at the weekend, so over three hours door to door and about two and a half back... Should be somewhere just over an hour from Wi...

Last post for the week

Been let out early today, nice!Today I'm reading Be My Enemy, the new Christopher Brookmyre, so far it reads like the plot for a computer game, but I'm liking it.Something's kicking off on Manor Road, there were loads of police cars at the junction o...

Gollum (Andy Serkis)

He was just leaving the restaurant with a lady friend after (I am presuming) having had a meal there about 9pm on Saturday. He appeared to be quite drunk.

Gandhi (well, Ben Kingsley)

As I am a bit of a fat knacker, I tend to wear elastic waisted trousers. One time when I was out for a late night birthday drink with my housemates, with a just a pair of jogging troosers on, commando stylee, I was stood at the bar, with a pint in ea...

Ainslet Harriot.

He was filming and going round saying hello to everyone. Coz he's just SUCH a friendly guy.

Steve Punt

...of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis fame(?). The unfunny and unemployed early nineties comedian was wandering around Waterloo Station looking lost, probably due to the tube strike that was going on at the time.

That bloke from Marian and Geoff

As with all famous folk, he's shorter than you'd think.

He was on the down escalator. Not in his taxi though.

He's also in "Human Remains", no idea what his name is.

5th December 2000

Shanks

6pm aprox on the 2nd of November. Eating a whopper with cheese! Then heading for an undisclosed destination, presumably to 'get it together in the country'. How very mysterious.But how can Shanks eat AND talk on a mobile @ the same time? Ok - he's c...

Steven Pastel (him of the Pastels)

After a hard days shopping I was returning home on the above train and noticed a familiar face sitting in the same carriage as me. It turned out to be the Glaswegian Pop Pixie Stephen Pastel from the Pastels (who don't have any share value in PopEx, ...

That french bloke who runs the millennium dome

This was last Friday morning (18th August) and he was sitting in a standard class carriage with some friends/colleagues telling them how pleased he was that no-one recognised him.

New Cross Venue

Before I lived in New Cross, didn't really know where it was. We thought we could get a tube there (it was not running) and walked back to Waterloo after...
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