What a busy time I'm having at the moment. It's all go. I'm very excited about a free trip I've blagged to Miami and Mexico next week. BA Club Class flights (bed on aeroplane!) 5 star resort, VIP type sketch. Could work…
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- You Got Nothing Coming, Notes from a prison fish
You Got Nothing Coming, Notes from a prison fish Jimmy Lerner played down in one short paragraph within "You Got Nothing Coming - Notes From a Prison Fish" a reference that he use to work in the opposite cube to the…
ShantaramShantaram by, by Gregory David Roberts Finished reading this fantastic book last night. It’s a truly epic saga, a doorstop of a book that I've been draggin round with me for the last month or so – nearly a thousand…
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
** ** Every now and then you find yourself reading a book which you just don't want to end. This was one of those books. I'd never heard of it or it's author before when I picked it up from a charity shop on a 'ooh,…
BBSBig Beach Sports for the wii gets an official two thumbs fresh. Since the wii came out I've been hankering after a cricket game for the wii. I'm not the olny one - there's been forums and websites campaigning for…
- Blind Faith
Blind Faith by Ben Elton I picked up this book from the exotic shores of the ASDA book isle. I was in a book doldrum after finishing a run of cracking titles, everything I picked up seemed to fall short. I decided to…
CalistoCallisto by Torsten Krol So I got this book whilst racing though an airport. It was 6am, pre Portugal stag do, the lads were already at the bar getting combat beers. I gave myself 5 minutes to find a new book. I've…
- Absurdistan
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart The premise for this book is along the lines of an overweight Jewish Russian wanabe American called Misha Vainberg who happens to be the son of one of the richest men in Russia. The…
- The Lost City
The Lost City by Henry Shukman Racing through Liverpool airport recently (on route to Barcelona) with not much time to spare and a notion to score me a new book I spotted this gem (I say gem, because it had a very…
flickrDay 165 - Fry up , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . This weekend involved a lot of stopping in. On Wednesday, Jaygo went in to hospital for a minor operation on a cisty type thing on his neck. This turned into quite…
Akira on Kings RoadSo last night I had a friend/colleague over from work - we (Eirene, he and I) went out for eats at the Harrogate's new sushi restaurant - Akira on Kings Road. Very pleasantly surprised. It's got the YoSushi! style…
- Han Solodad
Fairly quiet weekend. Was solo dad for most of Saturday. I quite like being solo dad even though it's quite hard work (Hat's off to Eirene who does it loads). Sophie is a little poppet when I'm solo dad (she often acts…
- Mister Pip
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. I'm very fond of a book that takes you to a different place. The book itself is set in Bougainville ( map ) in the North Solomons ( pics ) a lush tropical island on the other side of the world…
Big nowtBig Nothing indeed. I've been a big fan of the Simon Pegg's work for years now. It's the first thing I've seen with him in that I've not liked. It seems that he's got a natural gravitation to all things good (or perhaps…
The Welsh GirlThe Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies So I was in ASDA last week on Tuesday evening, needing a new book. A few things struck me about this book, firstly, it's written by a chap who's middle name is Ho . A letter combination…