"Things turn around as quickly as they turn shite," wise words from a friend who knows.Personal crisis under control for now, (grumble grumble) and have out of this, endeavoured t...
Having one of those colossal moments where lots of moving parts have landed by my feet and I actually just want to throw the towel in and leave this city.I havent seriously considered leaving London ...
Touched a handrail. Am sick.Weather outside is so lovely and sunny, and all I can envisage is getting drunk on LemSip, splayed out on the couch in a fever.On a positive note, The Dove and i are booke...
Here are a few things I wish I could say out loud, but am not honest enough to.Lately, Ive been struck with the (British?) affliction of being too polite (read: passive aggressive) when it actually c...
Ill get to the point. I have never met a Queen, (Latifah or otherwise), but I can say that theres been a mutual acknowledgement. For those interested, heres the Daily Mails coverage of the day....
Well it is an exciting old day.I may meet The Queen today. I will get to see her at the very least, and if Im lucky Ill shake her hand.Have been invited to the Buckingham Palace Garden Party, plus on...
Just had my second visa experience in a month and nearly exploded from frustration.Im too frustrated to even write about it, so Ill be an adult and sidestep this fucking disaster of a passport I have...
Had a huge blow out last night. It started while barking down a telephone at an unyielding reporter, clutching a half drunk flute in my champagne hand.Champagne was just the springboard I needed to f...
I chose a bag yesterday, [Mulberry, fuck] and had to tear my hand away from the mouse I was pushing around: no can do.In two weeks, if everything goes OK with my next visa adventure, the Dove a...
Isnt that Ridge? Ron Moss, is that you, you funny sonofa? Confession time. Picked up three controversial habits over the last little while. Without initiating the circle of blame that is circulating ...
If theres one thing Ive learnt living in this city, its:1) Never ever take advantage of sun. When it shines, you drop everything youre doing to get outside. And you fucking hurry. You dont know how l...
So quite exciting,Massively exciting to be fair. I have been promoted. Little old me.I found out last week, and the Brit and I quietly sat at home chugging on a bottle of champers together. I am pret...
(Borat? Is that you, guy?---------^)So how did it go? Did I get my new visa?Thanks for asking. Yes. It took no less than eight hours. Thats dedication. Thats some serious dedication to a country that...
I am sat inside the Home Office in Croydon. Fairly sure that all this hanging around on these cold steel seats - nailed to the floor - is doing my pile my asscrack no favours.I am also blogging ...
Dude, we had a bank holiday yesterday.This is what couples do on a bank holiday weekend in England when they cant be fucked to do anything that involves an iotas worth of effort more, than say, lifti...
Its Election Day!Suitably dressed in a suit, Im about to make my way down to my local polling station.And stand in a long, after-work queue.In the rain.In heels.Im already fucking miserable and I hav...
(Power ballad face.)Did I ever tell you how much I absolutely love Air Supply?The band and the reference to being able to breathe.So its been raining for like a 100 days on end or something. It reall...
Ive filled in 64 pages of documents, submitted passport, photos, 12 months bank statements, fees, pretty much everything save a stool sample.*The process for my visa extension, which takes me to the ...
Well. We drank nine bottles of bubbly between six of us on Saturday, clothes and all sorts a-strewn about our lounge.Swishing was fantastic.There was a load of detritus left over from what can only b...
So.As we speak, theres a bomber who has taken four people hostage two blocks away from where I am sitting.An average Friday? Heres Sky News take on it. Our office is two blocks away, but Tottenham Co...
My Brit is in Israel for work, and turned into an instant stereotype last night.He played it up, Im certain, but if youve ever seen An Idiot Abroad featuring one Karl Pilkington being ridiculously Br...
Heart is beating, am sweating like Sarkozy in a socialist-dominated presidential campaign, nerves are jangling off the charts, want to stand up on my seat in this office and scream:KAWASAKI!And then ...
Dude, its the London elections.Dominating news agenda and political hour at drink-o-clock.Im allowed to vote. Literally. Jesus jousting in New Jersey,* I am chuffed. Im not allowed to do a lot ...
Friday marked a smidgeon of recreational relief from an otherwise really tedious week.A week feeling cold and grumpy, due to nicotine withdrawal the quashing of addictive demons that haunt my dreams....
Theres something in the air - and its probably this dog shit freezing weather outside thats catalysed this - but Im feeling really flat. There are a lot of things I wish I could pull out of a hat rig...
Imagine my surprise. My convoluted, crescendoeing delight.Sitting in a dental chair, sweating like a glazed ham, and the dentist didnt ram a drill the size of Belarus down my throat.In times past, th...
SHIT I HATE:Mondays. Especially when the entire day is dedicated to dealing with a media fire, from pretty much the moment I work up. Until five seconds ago.Telephones. Ive been on one all day. The b...
Im getting itchy feet again.Literally a first world problem, but two weekends not travelling and my travel clock is starting to tick.Forget my biological clock, my travel ticker is going fucking bese...
Im literallah obsessed with this man. Hes been around for a while now, and coined Gap Yah, a comedy sketch loved by people who love posh people.Me.He writes Gap Yah plannahs for the Telegraph.And I l...
We covered a fair bit of track over the last 4 days. London---> Bath---> Chipping Sodbury----> Tortworth----> Bristol---->Wotton-Under-Edge- ---> Cheltenham----> Lower Slaughter----> Oxford----> Londo...
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