Tiny bubbles

There are only 4 full weekends to get through until it is time to go to Italy.
It has officially been 2 months since I last touched a cigarette, even socially.
I have attended at least 2 parties and been to the pub a number of times since then.  These are the hardest places to avoid smoking.
I [...]

Eye-talian Itinerary

So first we fly to Venice on the 27th and we’ll be staying at Al Gallion B&B  nothing fancy but nice enough looking and well located.  As mentioned before our main plans for Venice involve the Biennale, gelato, and prosecco.  We will also go back to Lido and probably Murano too.  Jeremy is also obsessed [...]

Scenes from the file factory

So my boss popped round to our corner of files and boxes this morning to discuss a conference call we were supposed to be having this afternnon with someone in Moscow
“So, how’s your Russian?” He asked me.
“Mostly pretend,” I said.
Sadly the call got cancelled so I won’t get to try it out.
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Today’s Sicilian Update
When we [...]

Summer summer summertime

Our Dublin trip was really nice.  I have pictures but they are still on the camera because I can’t find the cord that goes between the camera and the laptop.  Mostly they are very grey because it rained a lot.  We did lots of touristy things, of which my very favorites were the Kilmainham Jail, [...]

Fireable Offense

So we’ve been talking (obviously) about the Michael Jackson memorial a fair bit at work today.  And I mentioned that I really enjoyed Stevie Wonder’s performance and one of my temps said that he thought it was just okay and that Stevie Wonder was “overrated.”  Overrated!  I almost fired the ridiculous man on the spot.   [...]

Conspiracies

My friend Tom has a theory that Michael Jackson isn’t really dead but is actually testing his fans.
Tom thinks that in a few weeks’ time Jacko will rise like a phoenix and announce that instead of the planned 50 shows he will only be performing a single show and the only people allowed to attend [...]

Returns (or: No, no, no, Prosecco!)

We’ve booked our tickets.  We’re definitely going back to Italy.  As mentioned before we’ll be in Venice first and then move across the country to Sicily.  We leave on 27th August and will fly into Marco Polo Airport in Venice.  From Marco Polo you take the Vaporetto (water bus) into Venice proper.  It’s about a [...]

Memories, may be beautiful and yet . . .

So on Saturday Jeremy and I were waiting for Sunshine Cleaning (not as good as I’d hoped, not very good at all really) to start at the Brixton Ritzy when I looked over at him and said, “Know where we were this time last year?” and he said, sadly, “Yeah, the Dominican Republic.” And I [...]