by Neil | Feb 16, 2010 | Life, Paris, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Seemed like a good idea at the time, Travel
It’s that time of the week again. Been an eventful one this week. World: To be honest I wasn’t paying much attention to what was going on in the world as the imminent threat of snow focussed all my attention on just what the hell I was going to do if the...by Neil | Oct 4, 2009 | Family, History, Things to do in Kent, Travel
My parents have been down (or I guess up and slightly to the right like) visiting. The last couple of times they visited my mum has wanted to go to Chartwell and this time we finally got our shit together and went. Chartwell, of course, was the home of Winston...by Neil | Jul 21, 2009 | J.R.R.Tolkien, Life, Personal, Thoughts, Travel
Not an awful lot to report. I spent last weekend in Oxford and, after a somewhat unfortunate incident with the hotel room, had lovely time seeing old friends. It was my first time in the city. It’s a strange place full of contradictions: we passed a mock tudor...by Neil | Mar 7, 2009 | commuting, London, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but I'm not proud, Travel
Charing Cross aren’t very good at updating their tanoy messages. They’ve been running the same “Please take care due to today’s inclement weather” message whether the weather has been inclement or not. I’m not irritated by that....