I live within spitting distance of the new Emirates Stadium. In fact I almost bought a season ticket last year after Rebecca my mentee and I got free tickets to see a Arsenal vs Liverpool game.
Tonight walking home from work up Holloway Road was like walking into a riot zone. There were police [...]

With Valentines Day coming up I decided to attend a speed dating event. This time it was City Professionals. I really don’t know why I go anymore as it is a bit like eating KFC. Every now and again you fancy trying it and then when you do although it’s ok you [...]

My mate Lisa is the makeup artist for the Italian presenters of the channel four Friday night Album Chart Show so she invited me along to Koko in Camden to the VIP area for the taping of the show. We got to see Klaxtons, Lady Sovereign, some other bands and The Feeling. Quite [...]

I had my second advanced riding class today. I felt like they ganged up on me as I had two observers which I was a bit nervous about as we were doing the ‘bends’ which is traditionally my weak area – I almost failed my DAS due to my bends.
Apparently I have progressed and [...]

Saturday my flatmate Azra and I went cycling through the city and I showed her the base of the Gherkin which I discovered earlier in the week. Azra has just bought a folding cycle whose wheel size is closer to my roller blades than my bicycle as you cans see from the picture of [...]

On Thursday evening I was going to join the bowling my bike club had arranged in Romford but as my friend pulled out at the last moment I decided that it was too much to bike at night in the winter conditions by myself. I did ride my bike to work and it was [...]

Wednesday morning London woke up to a coating of snow. We haven’t seen so much since 2003. I had a lovely time walking to work taking photos as I went. I must admit that my new walk to work, though less than half the time it takes to walk to Hammersmith is [...]

At the moment life seems to be a never ending list of things I need to sort out. Including hanging a new curtain rail that arrived bent but the company that supplied it were ever so nice at sorting it out and rushing me a new one www.byretech.com. Now I just have to [...]

On Monday I attended a Network Canada evening. I have been on their email list for several years but have never managed to make it to one of their events. But seeing as how it was skating at Canada Square I decided it would be nice to try another London outdoor skating rink.
The [...]

We lost our internet connection again. One of the pubs nearby has free wireless access but unfortunately the signal wasn’t strong enough for my laptop. I guess this is what it is going to be like when travelling. Intermittent internet access. Still I am not paying Orange each month to learn [...]

I finally received the list of costs and income from the restaurant in Turkey. It appears that our costs were £19300 more than our revenue and my business partner is expecting me to send half of that to her. Very annoying considering I was supposed to receive regular accounts and didn’t get the [...]

Today my new company had it’s quarterly review meeting after which we went to Somerset House for ice skating and then to Planet Hollywood for dinner. We were all a bit worried about the skating as London has been having gale force winds apparently the roof blew off London Bridge station. Never fear, [...]

I took my bike for it’s MOT today. I was well impressed with Burwin Motorcycles on Essex Road. I had ordered a second-hand kill switch unit from Motoworks and the headlight switch on it didn’t work so Burwin took the switch from it and soldered it onto my current unit. It also [...]

I have pretty much belonged to every gym chain in London. David Lloyds, Holmes Place, Fitness First (3 times), LA Fitness, Keiser Training (2 times), Aqua Terra (Islington council gyms), Hammersmith Fitness and Squash and Cannons. It is like a necessary evil of city living. I have spent most of my lunch [...]

A friend of mine sent out his albums of 2006. I would have to say my favourites were the new Killers – Sam’s Town and Snow Patrol – Eyes Open albums. Also good for a local band is Mohair’s Small Talk. I was disappointed in the latest albums from The Dears – [...]