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A rare night out in London tonight

Meeting a friend here after work before meeting Clare later, and staying in a hotel, how decadent. Tomorrow, lunching and shopping.Camera update: it just sent me an email, the first in days. Always a bit nervy receiving a mail saying "motion detected...
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Gone Ape

Went to Go Ape at Leeds Castle on Friday, bit of a work jolly. None of the pictures or video really came out that well, but here is me on a zip line / death slide / flying fox.It was great! Some pictures to come too.As a reward for watching my video...

Portchester weekender

Spent a smashing weekend in Portchester as it was Mum's birthday yesterday. Headed over Friday afternoon on the train, meeting up with Andy on the way in The Golden Lion. Not a great pub but a good evening anyway and some nice pints of HSB and a chat...

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Our actual first day in Key West

I realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clar...

Booked Key West

In a stark contrast to last year's no flying all year, we're starting already with a stay here in April. Nice! I really liked Key West when we went there before. That was a weekender from Miami, but this time we're there for a whole week, for Kev and...

Congrats to Kevin and Guiselle

We have a wedding to go to this year... in North Carolina, yoinks! What about my carbon footprint? I've had a really good year, no flying, my only foreign travel was to Scotchland and Brussels on the train (OK, and the car).UPDATE: Sounds like the we...

Good weekend

Quick trip to Mum and Dad's on Friday, with an afternoon off work thrown in, to be there for a fabulous family barbecue for Dad's birthday - I knew it was his 60th really. Just a flying visit, but still really good, nice to see so many people in one ...

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

No posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ...

Paul Clarke Meet & Greet Package

No not really, I just got an email about a Paul Stanley thing you can bid on, promoting his new solo album. He's the singer with KISS like you didn't know...To celebrate the new release, and his current club tour, we are offering a once-in-a-lifetime...

Life is Usually Really Quite Fascinating

Nice one The Good Doctor, he just pointed out to me that you canoffset the CO2 cost of your holiday. I just did for our trip to Miami, �12.03 is now winging it's way to some right on tree planting ceremony. Not only do I hate flying, but I feel prett...

Jimi Hendrix 1966

I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1966 and What a night it was. I was a 14 year old aspiring drummer and was involved in the promoting of the gig by way of flying in the afternoon as the gig was hastily arranged on the day. The gear duly turned up and I had the ...

And two eyes made out of, er, sprouts

Us in the snow today in the in-laws garden, Clare took the picture that's why she's missing... We really did have an amazing amount of snow here in Folkestone, more than I've seen in years. Four or five inches fell overnight, on top of whatever fell ...

Clubbing in the week

Oof, not feeling too clever today, went to the popbitch party yesterday at The Player in Soho (ooh, google maps has new features). Went for a couple of drinks in The Blue Posts right across the road before it too. That's the kind of thing I miss abou...

Ace weekend

Took a road trip to Fareham to visit the family this weekend, borrowing Clare's dad's car. No problems getting there, though it's not a drive I've done myself before, up the M20, round the M25 and then down the A3. The A3 near the Devil's Punchbowl w...

San Francisco

So, part the first of my big holiday / honeymoon write up. Slight preamble, some experiences on the way there. Our flights were at nice civilised times, but to save any rush and extend the holiday a bit, we booked into a hotel at Heathrow. But it was...

Bank holiday WEEKENDER!

Stop panicking everyone, I'm back, reporting on updates of the weekend... Quite literally THREE PEOPLE said on the phone that they thought something was up / I'd gone away somewhere because the site wasn't updated over the weekend. Sorry! How will yo...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

quite how you manage to find

pleasure in photographing squaky flying albino rats escapes me! bloody things

RE: Cheers man!

well, yeah I guess you got me on that one
but my excuse is I was a bit busy flying to the other side of the world and trying to find a job 'n stuff...

Ralph Little

On Sunday 7th March he was parking his car with the company I work for at Heathrow, he was flying to Ireland with 1 friend, and they were planning on going out for the evening and they were both dressed in tracksuits (BRIGHT!!!) and hats, bandana's a...

Lock Stock

A pleasant evening in the Defoe, they have a new guest beer on called Lock Stock, it's a smashing deep red colour and tastes a bit of bitter chocolate. Spotted CELEBS, that's my best hobby - Sue Perkins was the most famous, her off celebrity Big Brot...

Was it HOT at the weekend or WHAT?

Went to the Red Bull Flug Tag thing in Hyde Park at the weekend, was that a victim of it's own success or WHAT? Haven't read any reviews of it yet, I'd imagine they'll all rave about it as it looked like it was GREAT - if you were in the press enclos...

Philip Schofield

flying ou with BA, flew out on Thursday 19th June economy class!

some advice I was given about Hamburg

S-Bahn is short for Schnell-Bahn which are the suburban trains.In German cities you have the following:U-Bahn (big blue U signs) - Untererdisches Bahn so Underground, normally a small network in the city centreS-Bahn (green S signs) - Schnellbahn so ...

One of the chaps from the Flying Pickets

Ummm...two weeks last Friday, about 8pm. He was just hanging out and harmonising with passers-by (nice idea but unfortunately not true). Actually examining the menu of Jin Kichi and deciding against (wisely in my humble opinion)...

Come Fly With... BRUCE DICKINSON!

Bruce Dickinson and Metal-Is are offering YOU the chance to be taken for a spin in Bruce Dickinson (dodgy novellist and occasional Iron Maiden frontman)'s plane...There are 6 flights up for auction, and the winners of 6 of these get a 2 hour flight f...

Hot Ticket, slight return

Tonight Captain Soul and Gay Dad are playing at Radio 4, the PopTones club at Notting Hill Arts Centre...Flying in the face of popular rumours, it's not an industry only thing, it's open to everyone. It's a fiver to get in, and it's at the Arts Club,...