As I’m sure you’ll remember, I had my car broken into twice in the space of two months. The reason was the Sat Nav mount on the dashboard. The week of the second break in the Edinburgh Evening News reported it is the growth crime of 2006. As much as it pains […]
I announced a little while before the Christmas Party that I’d be wearing, for the first time ever, my white linen jacket. Lo and behold when the party comes around 9 out of the other 14 members of staff are also wearing the same white linen jacket! It was so embarrassing - ten […]
Every year, Edinburgh tries to out do itself by arranging a bigger Christmas event. This year we have the big wheel; the swingy chairs; the trampoline with guide wires; a huge German market and the ice rink. There are some great shots capturing the beauty of the city here but I’m most proud […]
Okay, there are still a few days left until my birthday but I’ve just received a present through the post and I am so grateful with my great friend who got it for me (take a bow Donald). Having heard me rave about a copy of Private Eye I bought for my flight down […]
In two week’s time, on Tuesday 7th November, Americans will go to the polls to vote in their Mid-Term Elections for the entire of the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. With Dubya’s approval rating at an all time low of below 40%, there is a very real possibility that the […]
I have had the pleasure of testing Gillette’s new Fusion razor for a few days before it becomes available to the public (Monday 7th August). A few weeks ago I was wandering down the road and happened to muse to myself “I wonder when Gillette are going to try to match or beat Wilkinson […]
I’ve oft thought that alongside genius comes insanity. That could be the only explanation why a young member of Mensa (lapsed admittedly) would want to jump off a crane raised *over* 100 feet in the air. Ah, I’ve though of a better one! To raise £250 for the British Heart Foundation. […]
…And I had some fun, on the underground. The ladies turned their heads around, saying “Phillip where are your trousers?”
Well well well well. It seems, after years of being teased for being English and wearing a kilt, I am in fact Scottish. I’d previously used the Spatial Literacy website to analyse the […]
Why did I click through those pages? Didn’t I remember what curiosity did to the cat? I have now made a donation to the British Heart Foundation and agreed to try to raise a minimum of £100 for their excellent cause in the next four weeks. That’s the very good part of […]
The Scotsman has ran with the headline that Scottish forces are looking to recruit more police officers from eastern European countries. That’s just what we need. Tony Blair has already scrapped our right to silence, removed the need for us to be charged to be held indefinitely, taken away our right to a […]
Monopoly’s really annoy me. I’m glad to say that as of 6am this morning a major monopoly in Scotland is finally over. No longer do we have no choice in what our pubs and restaurants stink of. We can now enjoy all the olfactory wonders of body odour, spilt lager, vomit and […]
With a heavy heart I have to inform everyone that a good friend of mine and a regular contributor to this site, Andy Regent, has lost his freedom and has been locked up as of this morning. The incidents that led up to this were on Friday night at his leaving party (warning: viewer […]
What a great job I have at SNIPEF! Rather than being chained to my desk I’m currently on the banks of Loch Ness monster spotting. I learnt yet another new fact today. Last time I was here I found out that Loch Ness has more water in it than all the lakes […]
…With the Elephants and the Monkeys,
And you look like one too!
Hmm, I think I’ve got a couple of songs mixed up there (unless your birthday is on Valentines Day). I do accept that the classic image of a rose is red, but surely the colour of a violet is, well, violet - hence the […]
For four years I lived in the North West of England and having recently gone back there I find it amazing the differences between there and just about anywhere else. There are some things I will never stop doing or using, such as saying “barmcake” instead of “roll” or “bap” when referring to bread. […]
Dulux have a very cool white paint that goes on pink and dries white so you can see where you’ve painted - genius! (Although if your wall is that white already why are you painting it?) I can’t wait to get someone I know to do this and coerce them into it, but […]
Andy posted a comment on my last post saying that I’ve probably set some new form of vanity with the excessive pictures of me on one page and that got me thinking. It shouldn’t come as a shock to many people that I am quite egotistical. A recent Two and a Half Men […]
One day this title will be correct. So yesterday he suffered a humiliating defeat despite calling back Brown and Straw to get a few more votes. Couldn’t be happier! I saw this coming for a while and the fact that they won a vote by one MP last week really tempted me […]
Damn. Okay, the big beast is out and all the credit goes to David Davis. He had 67 declared MPs and was suggesting he would get around 80. He only got 62. That clear shows several people who had declared for him switched to Dr Fox in order to try and […]
Five men go in, only one walks out. Rifkind is the first to go and Davis wins by a large number of MPs’ votes. Sir Malcolm then throws his support behind Ken Clarke as he shares his “One Nation Conservatism” ideas, despite disagreeing on Europe (which is a none-issue in this campaign). […]
Pre-dating Eddie Izzard’s idea for the gameshow “Whose Pig Is This?”, there is a logic puzzle where you have to work out who owns the fish. Despite the story, it was not created by Albert Einstein. If you can solve it within 20 minutes you are suposed to be in the most intelligent […]
My t-shirt is nearly ready for me to wear for the next month. It says on it “I’m a foreign mute amputee” in big letters. Underneath that it reads “I don’t understand English, I can’t speak and I have no hands”. Finally it says “So don’t bother me with your flyers!”. […]
Sadly this isn’t a little piece slating fashion designers At the weekend I was having a conversation with a few friends when the subject of meat eating came up. I have friends who don’t eat meat for a variety of reasons and classify themselves as vegetarians or vegans. The problem is […]
Mmmm, free food. I’ve just bought 8 bottle of Tabasco sauce (about £1.20). I hate tomatoes so no Bloody Marys for me, so why buy so many? Simple, the boxes are flashed with “Free Pizza” and inside is a voucher for a free 10″ Cheese and Tomato pizza with any four toppings […]
Yesterday ended with a very nice barbecue up at Blackford Hill (next to the Royal Observatory). It’s just a shame that under one of the hills there was a 30 person rave going on! There are a few good pieces of advice I can share to help everyone have a great BBQ too. […]
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