Went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest last night at the Vue in Oxford. As you could have predicted, the early evening screenings were sold out. Luckily my friend and I had already planned to go and watch the 9.30pm screening, so I arrived to book tickets at 7.30pm, there were plenty […]
Friday 7th July 2006
A year ago, I was on my computer at work, taking phones calls to the helpdesk as normal. I opened up Firefox for the first time that morning to the BBC News web site (which is the default home page on all my personal computers) to find a breaking story of power surges on the […]
Wednesday 21st June 2006
This may surprise you but I tend to prefer to watch football in two places. In the comfort of my own sofa, at home. Or at the ground (Highbury and soon Ashburton Grove). I have only ever watched one game in pub group environment. (While you recover from the shock, let me explain). It was […]
Sunday 18th June 2006
I enjoy the occasional quiet weekend. In recent weeks I have had far too much going on, while enjoyable it is not the same as staying in at home and doing nothing. I say nothing but I have just been watching the wall to wall football from the World Cup. Regardless of the countries playing […]
Friday 16th June 2006
Well I made it to Friday, there was a slight wobble midweek but we made it. It has been a few days since my last entry and I have been thinking of what to write about. The World Cup has been dominating everything and perhaps the reason I find myself struggling to come out of […]
Sunday 11th June 2006
This is just the life. Three World Cup matches on a day. Fantastic. I had a proper ‘bloke’ weekend with the only other bloke with me this weekend, being my cousin two months short of being one years old. I watched the England game (at home). I was thinking of going to Canary Wharf but […]
Friday 19th May 2006
Where to start? I am slightly disorientated, having for the first time in several months (could it be as much as a year?) not blogged over the weekend, as I normally would have done to build up to Wednesday. Perhaps for a change, the press, television and other blogs were right, the match, the final […]
Monday 8th May 2006
I got home around 9pm last night and after dinner my priority was to upload my pictures from a historic and emotional day onto FlickR for the world to see. Photographs for once came before the blog, so here I am some 24 hours after the event, trying to keep my emotions on hold as […]
Friday 5th May 2006
Chris had already seen it. Last night in fact. He had picked up his girlfriend from The Oracle, got home to Henley-upon-Thames, only to turn around and head back for the 10pm screening. (He was even willing to wait for the 11.15pm final show). To his surprise the theatre was empty with perhaps 20 people […]
Tuesday 2nd May 2006
It is a long time since I jumped on the computer straight after a quiet night out to blog. I rarely blog ‘live’ after the event these days. It usually takes me a few days to gather my thoughts and put a decent entry together. I must be showing my age, after all I have […]