Archive for December, 2004



Round Ireland with a Fridge
I must admit, I’m not particularly fond of reading. However, the past two months found me getting hold of six books. Never in my entire adult life have I picked up a book, let alone actually bothering to go out to get six. This sudden change in my enthusiasm puzzled […]

A close friend of mine was asked to work during Christmas eve and on Christmas day itself. She was told by her employer earlier that if she chose to work on those two days, she would not have to work on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Now she found that she would have […]

Modern-Day Indiana Jones

National Treasure
What do you get when you mix together Nicholas Cage, Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney? A fun and entertaining action-packed film with a few twists and turns thrown in.
Nicholas Cage stars as Ben Franklin Gates, who comes from a family line of treasure hunters, obsessed with cracking puzzles and clues in search for this […]

Sketch taken from Little Britain that was aired on BBC last night.
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Narrator: Posh people are much better and cleverer than common people. And so they live in a nicer house, like this. Harvey Pincher’s parents are meeting his girlfriend for the first time.
[In a very posh living room having a glass of wine. They started […]

Obey the Traffic Lights
I almost ran over somebody today. It was around noon, or probably earlier. A woman, possibly Greek ancestry, in her mid-twenties, wearing a zebra-patterned jacket with white skirt, with a matching hat and dainty handbag to match, was waiting for the pedestrian lights to turn green, on the North Circular […]






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