Archive for April, 2008

English tradition and habit

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Giant inflatable food invaded Trafalgar Square for St Georges Day. It was a bit like a country fete but with less grass, no games and very much more random.
With the first day of proper sunshine yesterday most of London rushed to the nearest open space, lay down and drank pimms. A […]

Eelctioneering

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

I’ve been out leafleting for Ken this afternoon - delivering leaflets along the local streets, to the houses that were clearly built to be occupied by one family but which no contain three or even four flats, which must be tiny. To the houses where the dogs bark quite excitedly, having been brought up […]

More than the sum of its parts?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

No blogging last week* as I was busy being distracted by visitors from foreign climes, one actual American, two ex-pats who live there and a Swede (from Sweden not the vegetable) were visiting.
I’ve got lots of half formed thoughts floating around about polling - I took part in an IPSOS/Mori poll the other day; about […]

Party Mix

Monday, April 7th, 2008

More wine than can be reasonably drunk, beer from the nearest off-license, as many bottles of cava has can be carried, a potent fruit punch – twice, *lots* of cake, even more friends, one surprise special guest. Mix well, do not shake.
Pictures: to follow
Lovely: to see you all
Still: definitely only 21.

Things I did today that may or may not be work related:

Friday, April 4th, 2008

1. Had an ugly naked guy moment as one of the guests in the hotel I can see out my window at work forgot to draw the curtains as he wondered around, before and after getting into the shower. A bit like a diet coke break… but not.
Work related activity rating: 5 – […]