Last week, my cheapo-but-perfectly functional cell phone here went on an acid trip, and spazzed out permanently with a multi coloured display. Ok – so what really happened is that I sat on it and it buckled under the weight of my fat arse ~chuckle~ and I broke it. Now this led to an interesting [...]

“I’ve got a ulcer thingie on my gum I think!” I say to Leigh on Friday. “Let’s have a look” she says, and peers inside my mouth as I unfurl my lip to reveal a painful white white blob growing on my gum. “Oh it’s a canker”. “A what?” “A canker” “Do you mean an [...]

Hold onto your seat … it’s a ROADTRIP! As Leigh and I took off on Friday to drive for a weekend up into the mountains of North Carolina. Which gives me another chance to whine on about my current obsession about the USA – their roadsigns. First – an odd fact about the ’26. Interstate [...]

Well that’s interesting … my blog is back. Almost. I appear to have lost some images, my stylesheet and the last post with the iPhone: IMPOSSIBLE video embedded. So below, I’ve linked to it again and if you’d all like to write the nice things about it that you wrote before then that’d be marvellous [...]

She just won’t go away! I’m sorry but she won’t. There I am minding my own business snapping away photos with Leigh at a wedding at the weekend just gone, when the band that have been playing for the last couple of hours step down to take a well earned break. They stick on a [...]

“So you’ve never had a soft boiled egg before?” “No” “In an egg-cup?” “No” “And dipped toasted soldiers in it?” “No!” “And we don’t own any egg-cups?” “I don’t think so!” Honestly … these Americans have never lived. And they don’t appear to eat soft-boiled eggs either. And none of the shops that we’ve visited [...]

At last! Ok, here’s something I’ve been wanting to do for aaaages. And last Friday, I found myself out with someone (not Leigh) in a car, and I had a video camera with me, so I was able to capture just how annoying this is. It’s the fact that as far as I’m concerned, Charleston [...]

It’s July. A few days in actually, and I meant to say these two things back on the 1st of this month: • Where did the year go? • I need to bitch about my music. Like this: So we all know that I’m quite obsessive about my music, my iTunes collection and how I [...]

Stereotypes about Americans, perhaps in particular – those from the south. Stereotype: They all eat grits. Real answer: Well not ALL, but certainly a lot of them do Stereotype: The all drive thru everywhere. Real answer: Yes, they do actually … as per the rest of America Stereotype: Everyone is a gun touting redneck. Real [...]