Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Relief of the Long Lost Wallet

I can report, with joy in my heart, that my jacket and wallet combination has been returned unharmed.
Young Nelson is very much a happy little bunny. Both items have been retrieved from the Crown Plaza Hotel on New Bridge Road, near Blackfriars. I would like to thank them for keeping the property of a very […]

Post-Corporate Muck Up

Well, it is the Monday after the Friday before. As mentioned in my previous post I was off out to a corporate drinking event. Unfortunately, poor little Nelson made a bit of a fool of himself. I was sooo drunk. I still have a hangover now. The last time I was that drunk was the […]

Sing For Yer Supper

It is the corporate Christmas Party tonight. “But it is February,” I hear you protest. That’s right. The company, in its ongoing efforts to penny pinch, is to engage in its festive activities during the cheapest and most depressing of months. There will be free beer for half an hour and some complimentary chips and […]

Strangers on a Train

I recently finished reading the debut novel by acclaimed psychological thriller writer Patricia Highsmith. The story beings with architect Guy Haines traveling by train to see his unfaithful and estranged wife, Miriam, to finalise a divorce so that he can marry the woman he loves, Anne Faulkner.
While traveling on the train Guy meets Charles Anthony […]

There’s a Snow Man

He is waiting in the sky and he is going to dump a ton of snow on the roads and pavements.
Oh yes, it looks like the world has ended. In all my years of living in the capital I have never seen anything like this. The ground is covered in over a foot of weird […]