I don’t smoke (much) any more and frankly I love good food and beer too much to make too many promises on that front so what resolutions for this year?
Ages ago I stopped making ’stopping’ resolutions as you have to keep them up for the whole year, and started making ‘doing’ resolutions. They’re a lot [...]
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My 2008 New Year Resolutions




(No Ratings Yet)Arsenal Fans are rich time-wasters




(No Ratings Yet)New research from Nielsen Netratings shows that Arsenal FC fans are amongst the richest shirkers in the UK
The internet research firm found that the ten sites with the greatest concentration of wealthy visitors using the Internet from home and work are made up of four business [...]
Blog tagged! 8 Things you didn’t know about me




(No Ratings Yet)…and probably don’t care
Kieron tagged me in an ongoing game that seems to be expanding, last time I saw it it was just 5 things, so I’ll have to put my thinking hat on.
“Each person posts the rules before their list, then they list 8 things about themselves. At the end of the [...]
Eton Sunk by the Chinese




(No Ratings Yet)It was with a pang of nostalgia that I read this piece about the demise of Eton Racing Boats today.
ERB are made in ancient boathouses in Windsor, near the school. Though one of them is now a 100ft long oven inside designed to cure the modern carbon construction that these boats use.
I used an Eton [...]
I want my PS3..




(No Ratings Yet)and I got one!
Just happened to be in Blockbuster as they secured another batch from Sony, so come 00:01 am on 23rd March I’ll be collecting mine.
Question now is what to do with it? I have 3 options:
1) Flog it on Ebay where they are reportedly fetching up to £1,000
2) Develop my Win a Free [...]
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