I spotted this pair in the Lower Regent Street branch of Tesco Metro today. I was looking for milk and bought wrapping paper, these two cans of red bull and a can of red wine. It’s hard to say why Tescos are responsible for accepting one in eight of every pound spent in Britain, isn’t [...]
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Power Failures in Chez Nic
21May07Our house, for some reason, has the flakiest electricity I’ve ever known. That includes two years at university living in a house with perpetually stoned, necessarily lazy housemates whose financial misprudence, procrastination and often downright bloody-mindedness conspired to let the metered electricity, run first into credit, then die completely. These frequent power cuts led mostly [...]
The Beer Post (One)
10May07[Date: Wed 2nd May] Hello from Japan! We’ve been up for two days straight with no sleep on the plane. We landed at 9am Japan time and have had to stay up all day to sort out our body clocks. It’s 8pm now, we’ve checked into the ryokan and we’ve got a cheap easy night [...]
Trying to photograph Munich
05Mar07Bless the lady at reception here. I knew her weakness, she spoke English! I can take my thirst no longer and storm down two flights of stairs and into the reception-cum-lounge. “GUTEN ABEND!” I proclaim in my usual overenthusiastic way. I segue immediately into English. “Do you know where I can get a beer?” I [...]
The bagel post
04Mar07There are two maps drawn in pen in my pocketbook. One leads to a store where I need to pick up my tickets for tonight’s concert and the other leads to the Georg Elser Halle, where the gig is being held. My spatial needs satisfied, I head out to find my tickets, some food and [...]
On the hunt for beer in Munich
03Mar07I went out in Munich tonight in search of a drink. It turned out to be a little harder than I thought. I had some image of these key German cities as immense clusters of cool little Bierkellers full of people willing to have a good knees-up and a pint, all of the above just [...]
