Heavy metal umlauts & the greengrocer’s apostrophe
Browsing through the entertaining pages of the musicology blog Dial ‘M’ for Musicology I came across this excellent posting called What Wikipedia is Good For, a gentle reminder to those…
Tooting Chariot Festival 2006
It’s August bank holiday so it must be…. manky weather, but also, of course, the famous Tooting Chariot Festival, which starts off right at the end of our street, and…
Chewing the fat about obesity
On the day that the main headline at 9.00am on the BBC news site is England to have 13m obese by 2010, I’m trying to work out why this seems…
The Kazoo Trumpet
I’ve complained about the occasional scarcity of kazoos in London before, so I’m delighted to offer a mini-clip of a girl in Electric Town in Tokyo playing her heart out…
More Tokyo pictures
Just added some more pictures to the Tokyo gallery, including some that are not at night, or not of plastic food displays. It’s no wonder that Toshiba and SanDisk have…
Tokyo gallery
Just started putting a few pictures in my Tokyo gallery, after an amazing evening at the top of the Sunshine City building. The picture (left) is of a strange device…