North of the Stupid Line

I had a most pleasant journey home from London Paddington last night. The FGW train left more or less on time at 1745, and arrived at Bristol Parkway at, wait for it, 2315.
Yes, you read right, 2315. FOUR hours late. And that was only to BP, not Newport. I arranged for [...]

Why does it always happen? We go months without anything decent on telly on a Saturday night, and then all of a sudden you have two good TV programmes on different channels, on more or less the exact same time!
I am of course talking about The X Factor vs. Strictly Come Dancing.
I will post [...]

I experienced a first last night for the RAD Services Team Away Day – I went to watch greyhounds racing at Romford Stadium. We had a meal in the Chase Restaurant while watching the races.
The food wasn’t the best ever, but it was adequate, and the atmosphere (with RAD colleagues present) was great, and [...]

… is to see my family learn BSL and communicating with each other in BSL.
This is something that I probably never will see. My parents always say that they’re too old to learn and reckon that they would never practice enough as I’m in London etc. However, I feel that, as it’s very [...]

Rachel was telling me this evening that Cardiff University (where she’s a student at) is now ranked the 20th best university in the UK according to The Guardian. The universities that I have had links with in some form or other are:

Cambridge: 2nd – I was offered a place by Jesus College, Cambridge, and [...]