Oh the life of an international jet-setter (as if). Just got back from a lurvely holiday in Funchal, Madeira (as in Madeira wine) – part of an Portuguese archipelago of islands off the coast of Morroco (like 1000km) in the mid Atlantic. Lovely island – friendly people, beautiful scenery, that sort of thing. Not that […]

Just had the pleasure of a last-minute work trip to the US – Boston to be exact – that, while I didn’t really get to see very much except the hotel and the people I was visiting, did afford half a day in downtime Boston, and of course the joys of international air travel. I […]

You hardly ever see hitch-hickers these days, do you? I remember about 15 or 20 years ago, it seemed you could never drive down a motorway slip road without seeing a chap with his thumb sticking out… But now I can’t remember the last time I saw someone trying to hitch a ride. Until just […]

Just made a scary discovery – I first signed up to It’s Your Turn nearly six years ago! Since then I have lost 62% of the games of Chess I have played on the site, and most of those to my friend penguin. Ho hum – but then it’s the taking part that counts! If […]

Thank goodness – the end of 2006. What a horrid year. Here’s to 2007!

Hooray – my alarm has gone off for the last time until next Friday! 🙂 Well, actually, we’ll probably need it in order to to make it to the 8am service on Monday morning, which will probably mean leaving the house at the same time. Come to that, I’m sure our little human alarm clock […]

Came across a term in the Metro yesterday that I’d not heard before; Google-stalker. Isn’t that a fantastic neologism; you instantly know exactly what it means, but then after a few minutes you think “Hey – I wonder if I’m a Google-stalker when I search for random friends/colleagues.” I quite often try to see if […]

I don’t know if you remember the old Zanussi ad? Zanussi – The Appliance of Science This always struck me as a very clever slogan, instantly sticks in the mind because of the whole rhyming thing, and always made me think Yes, Zanussi apply cutting edge scientific methods to produce the very best equipment. It […]

I’ve started a more structured weight loss program now, partly as an offset against Christmas, which is usually a weight-gain time! Actually no, it’s not just for Christmas; I’m trying to reverse the steady increase of the last 5 years! The particular spur this time is that I went to buy trousers, and my waist […]

What’s gone wrong with James Bond? Firstly let me make it clear I’m not a James Bond purist. I have never read a novel by Ian Flemming, and I fully appreciate that Casino Royale is probably the closest Bond has ever been to Flemming’s character. I guess second place goes to Timothy Dalton in something […]