King Arthur’s Most Ignominious Moment
King Arthur’s Most Ignominious Moment: When he was stopped by the police for carrying a drawn sword down Kensington High Street.
One fine day at Kew
A gallery of fine photos taken one fine day at the Kew Botanical Gardens in the west of London.
Words of Confusion
Words of (possible) confusion between English and Swedish – an article inspired by Artwiculate, the Twitter-based word game.
Disparate days in Leeds with Jonathan Kershaw
Disparate days as a student at Leeds with my housemate Jonathan Kershaw, bipolar (manic depressive) and certainly neither gay nor queer.
Elin’s Story: The Next 80000 Words
My plan to write the next 80000 words of Elin’s Story ran into the ground, and I grouch and bewail the fact
Getting ready for the carnival
A London pigeon getting ready for the Noting Hill Carnival apparently – a poster ohotographed on the London Underground.
More Summer Photos
These photos were taken over the summer of 2010. The oldest (the Balloon and clouds photo) I took on 26th June and the most recent, the group portrait of Taiga, the Gothenburg Balalaika Group, I took this morning (29th August). The Soapstone Inuits are on the mantlepiece of my brother- and sister-in-law, who have paddled … More…
Not now, Cora!
There are some great lines in Fantastic Voyage (some of them cited below), but I ended up going for a cheap joke at the expense of Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. I was inspired by the strip in the middle of the postcard above here, which is a still from the DVD. (What she’s actually … More…
Live, floss and prosper
The second DVD out of the box as I work through my birthday present to myself, is JJ Abram’s Star Trek from last year (2009). Taking this film as my subject here also gives me an opportunity to brush off and republish my original review. (‘Review’ doesn’t seem quite the right word, but judge for … More…
Human teenagers
The young ones make great pets. Just make sure you get rid of them before they mature the last thing you want is a human teenager running around your house