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Archive for December, 2008

Four weeks. Or that is how long it was two Tuesdays ago anyway. Back then (and it seems like a long time a go now!) I was in the happy position of being at the start of a bumper period of leave, and I had to say, I did have a few plans about how [...]

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Now I have never considered myself to be Scrooge like, but there is one particular Yuletide festivity that I can only describe as a load of old humbugs – the Christmas dinner.

The sight of the pale, flaccid, dry pieces of Turkey on the plate is enough to kill even the healthiest of appetites, and the 25th of [...]

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It’s not the easiest place in the world to find. Making your way there by foot involves a fairly lengthy hike from Wimbledon station up to that bastion of the middle classes, Wimbledon Village, and from there, a trek across the windswept plains of Wimbledon Common to the outer edge, where you will eventually find [...]

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