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 [...]

“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 roads [...]

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 [...]

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 CD/iPod/mix/whatever, and [...]

“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 over the last couple of weeks seem [...]

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 divide up [...]

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 answer: [...]