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      • Snow-dusted icon
        12/28/2006


        If you are a Hamburger (and by this, I mean a North German resident, not a meat sandwich), you will recognise this instantly. Not only will the sight of snow be familiar to you, but the sight of the Michel church will get you feeling al warm and misty. For a city bombed to near annihilat

      • Famous for 15 minutes
        12/23/2006
        If anyone out there is planning on a walking holiday abroad, I can suggest the perfect warm-up exercise: it's called the Heathrow Express. Whilst this rather expensive train does indeed deliver you swiftly and purposefully to the vicinity of Heathrow in 15 minutes in return for 15 pounds of you

      • The fog
        12/22/2006
        The entries on this blog could dry up over Christmas as I make my way around Europe to see the various parts of my family. My flight out of Heathrow tomorrow may still be grounded due to the thick pea-souper that has caused England to virtually grind to a halt.
        Attached is a view of my very ow

      • Expenses and the bottom line
        12/18/2006
        I did my expenses today.
        Nothing exciting in that, I have to say, well... not until I chanced across the back of this taxi receipt.



        Showing laser-guided marketing skills, these sophisticated London chest-ablishments zero in on the capital's wealthy businessmen rushi

      • Food abusers
        12/15/2006

        This is the scene as you emerge from the Silverlink station at Brondesbury Park in Kilburn.
        The streets are nowhere near as dangerous as the food. Take your pick - you could start with mechanically-recovered pieces of 'chicken' encased in soggy, starchy crumbs, dished up in its

      • Survival of the cutest
        12/14/2006
        I watched a TV program with my mouth open this evening.
        Trevor Macdonald and Zoe Ball (Hmmm - a dream pairing) presented a grotesque ITV show in which innocent and endangered animals were drawn into a Big Brother-style eviction game in which viewers 'voted' for which of eight endanger

      • Relationship problems
        12/11/2006
        I am backdating this entry, but the truth is, I think I am on the verge of breaking up with my PC at home. It's maybe because I haven't been showing it much love recently, and I have been working a lot, but my suspicions began to be tweaked when I saw the telltale signs of a virus. It stop

      • Better bring the washing in
        12/07/2006


        North London was hit by something rather alarming today. As if rising house prices, deterioriating council services and radioactive sushi bars were not enough to intimidate Londoners, we were treated to a small, but very focused tornado, which demolished a couple of buildings and injured

      • Ujbmlde wdors
        12/05/2006
        The internet is not merely a huge filing system of auctioned items for sale, family trees, porn and amusing videos of people falling over - there are also some rather nifty applications that complete tasks in front of your very eyes.
        For instance, you can cut out the immense amounts of time was

      • 21st century love
        12/04/2006


        Did you know that the average modern celebrity 'finally' finds love about 5.6 times in their career? If you are not finally finding love, and unfortunate enough to be in a stable relationship, you are condemned to...er... the Evening Standard at best. Everyone is a winner in ce

      • The environmental trail
        12/01/2006


        On a beautiful clear London morning, you'll have your rush hour mirrored up above you if you stop and watch. This is no multiple exposure - the morning sky above London really is criss-crossed with planes flying to New York, Cape Town, Helsinki, Moscow or Rome. None of these planes

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