Friday, 6th April, 2007 My sister leaves today to go to New York for two years. Her husband’s job is taking him there for a while, and as their beautiful son is only two at the moment, the timing is perfect: they’ll return just as he needs to go to school. Had a similar opportunity [...]
Archive for May 5th, 2008
A Sad Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New York, Sister on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chocolate Shovelling Maniacs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Easter, Easter Bunny, Egg Hunt on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 8th April, 2007 Cleansed from the Confessional, and after a Mass at which the children were freakishly well behaved, Wife and I set out about the business of the day: seeing how much chocolate it was possible to get through without being sick. Wife showed strong early promise, her size 8 frame being stuffed [...]
The Binliner full of Yoghurt
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Thursday, 12th April 2007 The magnificent Stephen Fry once wrote that he decided to go on a diet when he felt that his body had begun to resemble “a bin liner filled with yoghurt”. I’m not there yet: but there’s certainly a few too many Mullers in the Waitrose bag – so on Tuesday (after [...]
Boxtastic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiswick, Moving House on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, 12th April 2007 We move house quite soon. Wife’s found a fantastic place a couple of streets away (crucially, it’s still within the catchment area for the children’s school), with two more bedrooms and a great garden. With everything else that Wife does, she has also managed to pack up most of our belongings. [...]
A Week in Rome
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Conference, Rome on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 14th May 2007 Next week is a week-long conference in Rome. But with the joyous reminder that I have ALL of Wednesday off! I’m a bit over-excited: having not been to Rome for about 25 years – if not longer (certainly John Paul I was Pope at the time, and I do remember seeing [...]
The Kaiser Chiefs for Infants
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Kaiser Chiefs on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 15th April 2007 Driving back from a beautiful day in Richmond (enjoying the unseasonally hot weather before the hosepipe ban and stories about global warning get hitched up another level), we were listening to the radio when “Ruby” by The Kaiser Chiefs came on. Daughter (who is 2) went berserk: shrieking along to the [...]
Biblical Events in the Colosseum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Colosseum, Rain, Rome on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 21st April 2007 I could SO move to Rome. It is beyond beautiful. Now, pedants may suggest that a man with three children; a brand new, heavily mortgaged house and a job based in Chelsea ought not be planning a move to Italy – but it is such a fantastic place… I was at [...]
Shoes Shined While U Resign!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Good Friend in PR, Resignation on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, 25th May 2007 Good Friend in PR has just resigned from the same company I left last year. He had reached dizzy heights in the organisation (transferred to their head office) and had been instrumental in them gaining a far higher profile than they deserved (he’s very good). Anyway, unsurprisingly, he was headhunted by [...]
A New, Slimmer You
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fat, Thin on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, 25th May 2007 Two weeks into the diet and it is working like fuck I don’t want to suggest that I am now one of those painfully thin young men in skinny jeans (God! How I hate those trousers!) who seem to have broom handles for legs and a chest like a smashed in [...]
I’m Not A Plastic Bag. I’m Wife Cocaine.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anya Hindmarch, I'm Not A Plastic Bag on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, 25th May 2007 If you’re reading this in the UK, you will know what I’m on about. This morning, Anya Hindmarch’s very limited edition bag (above) went on sale across London. I,000 bags all expected to sell out within half an hour (and so it was…) Needless to say, Wife NEEDED one. This [...]
