I’m sure I remember someone wittering on a while ago about how they thought Cadbury’s Creme Eggs were getting smaller. We all know that chocolate manufacturers have been doing it for years – I mean, have you SEEN the size of a Curly Wurly these days? They used to be huge, and now they’re not [...]
Currently in the UK: Four day weekend. Currently in the USA: Not so. Nobody gets Good Friday or Easter Monday off as Bank Holidays. Or do they? As I now know of someone who’s company HAVE given them the day off today here – so I’m slightly confused as to what the offical policy is [...]
Eleven painful steps: 0 – Decide to rent out your flat, because you’re moving overseas. Choose local well-established lettings agency because you trust they will find you someone decent. 7 – Even though you contacted them three months before you left, the agency still haven’t found anyone for you by the time you come to [...]
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
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