My last day in Africa |
I've been proposed to by village chiefs and been given live Guinea Fowl and bowls of eggs, heard Dagbani spoken by handsome men with scarred faces and seen a life of hardship and humour etched onto th...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:49:00 GMT |
Oui, c'est vrai - je suis en Afrique! |
While the UK drowns in a deluge of rain and shivers in Central London at the 'could have beens' in Piccadilly this morning, I sit with my little spotty gecko pal in an office in Ouagadougou, capital o...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:44:00 GMT |
I'm a Black Sash Ninja Queen |
After a rather lack-lustre grading because my head was filled with snot-laden cotton wool (typical), I have finally passed my Black Sash in Lau Gar Kung Fu. It's a bit of a perculiar feelin...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 08:26:00 GMT |
I've been to the 'Naughty Drivers' school already... |
I've been driving since September 2006 - when I did six refresher lessons. They weren't really 'refreshers'. I passed my test first time 9 years ago and never drove again. It wa...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:05:00 GMT |
I've been kissed by Elvis |
It was fantastic!! Okay - it wasn't him, it was an Elvis impersonator called Lee 'Memphis' King and oh was he GOOD?! There are thousands of guys out there with stick-on sidies and bouffant...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:43:00 GMT |
Simon Pegg |
Okay, so on Friday evening I got on the 75 to Cribbs Causeway - a bus journey which felt like it would never end as it hissed through the slush and darkness of a wintery teatime. My feet f...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:51:00 GMT |
Birthday weekend Fortune Drive moshpit glory |
Oh joy - I am in the last year of my thirties and I saw it in by moshing in rainforest humidity in the upstairs room of The Louisiana until I had holes in my tights, and was drowning in a cocktail of ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:49:00 GMT |
Let it snow! |
It's really too warm. I woke up at 6.30 this morning to go swimming, and was drenched in sweat, without the hint of a nightmare or the promise of a cheeky wake-up canoodle from my equa...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:25:00 GMT |
Winter Blues |
It's the shortest day of the year, I am drowning in a sea of mucus which has been enveloping me for the whole of December, and I am at work trying to translate a report written in French, when my Fren...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:13:00 GMT |
Kung Fu Nerds |
Training was tough again last night, and I feel too weary to throw myself wholeheartedly into the day. Thought I'd do a little MySpace searching, and now I wish I hadn't. Why is it when I ...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:37:00 GMT |
