I may be in a position soon whereby I’ll need to start preparing my lunch for work in advance, instead of nipping home and doing my lunch during my break. So, I need some lunch ideas. Ham/cheese sandwiches and cold tuna pasta salad is going to get pretty boring soon. Obvious requirements: must be suitable… read full entry »

Sorry, I know some of you avoid Christmas like the plague, but I have to mention it at least once before December otherwise I’ll positively burst! Christmas, it’s my favourite time of year (and if you didn’t know before, you do now). I love the conversations, the food (oh! especially the food) and seeing peoples… read full entry »

I took my Mum out for dinner this evening as it’s her birthday, and I’m blogging about it purely because I was really impressed by the quality of food and standard of service. Now, everyone knows I’m a grumpy bugger, and usually will only review something if it’s annoyed me or somehow prevented me from… read full entry »

There’s nothing like three quarters of a bottle of white wine on a Sunday evening to relax with, whilst watching the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy. All I need now is a huge bar of chocolate or a tub of bloody gorgeous ice cream (and I have neither, darn). It’s lucky I don’t suffer from… read full entry »

I am an in such a fucking foul mood this evening. So many stupid things… I spent part of this afternoon re-doing work that I spent almost three hours yesterday polishing off (don’t ask). My face broke out in spots down one side last weekend and they won’t piss off. I look fifteen again. I… read full entry »

1. Take one bottle of white wine 2. Pour generously into large glass 3. Add hilarious show, Mock the Week in this case. 4. Laugh wildly. Result: woken neighbours and sore ribs from laughing so bloody loud. Alcoholism is a pretty good cure for stress though, I have to say. It’s not like me to… read full entry »

I am developing — or rather, re-developing — bad eating habits. In my old icky job my working hours were regimented. Coffee breaks were virtually timed to the second, and after stumbling up and down several flights of stairs all morning I’d worked off my lunch time calories before I’d even consumed them. Although I… read full entry »

I was having a great morning this morning. I had managed to catch up on some code that I was behind on for work (through no fault of my own, it’s a huge project) and everything was going well. Then, just after lunch, I went to grab my coffee cup and caught it with the… read full entry »

You know it’s time to have a clean out when you find: ..hot chocolate sachets dated “BEST BEFORE END JUN 96” behind a box of teabags (probably equally as old) in the back of a cupboard.

I can’t decide if this is really cool, or really sad.. I’m sat on a comfy reclining padded garden chair, under a gazebo (tent-like thing), munching on chocolate dairy cream eclairs, sipping blackcurrant ribena whilst wirelessly accessing the Internet. All of this at the same time as considering ideas laid out in Defensive Design for… read full entry »