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There are things in my life that I am hugely proud of. There are key events which have befallen me, both planned and unplanned, from which rich vein I shall be able to dredge happy anecdotes aplenty to see me well through my golden years, I’m sure. There are many projects I have begun and [...]

I still can’t work out what I like best: reviewing things; or eating sandwiches.
Today I’m going to be reviewing the Agatha Christie’s Poirot that is scheduled to go out on ITV 1 at 9pm on Christmas day while eating sandwiches.
Read all about it in The Global Herald later, but first, enjoy some of my morning’s [...]

Please forgive me if, on some strange whim, you subscribed to our RSS feed at some point in the past two years hoping for a regular update as to my state of mind, or even some occassional outburst of mirth or merriment at some more of life’s foibles like in the good old heady days [...]

This article was originally published on the 4th June 2009 – and has had to be moved after Google bestowed the title “Lord of the Internet” upon me officially a fortnight later.
Yesterday was one of those days where I went through the soul-mangle and emerged, this morning, feeling inspired despite smelling of whisky and stale [...]

My friend came up to Edinburgh from London on the train the other day without having the sell a kidney to buy the ticket. In this article I will explain how you can too – despite the ludicrously expensive and weird train ticketing system we have in effect in the UK!
The simple answer to this [...]

Well, its about time for a New Years message to all of you imaginary friends on the internet who I actually can prove don’t read this blog – they don’t call me the King of web traffic statistics for nothing. No. But they don’t pay me for the priviledge either.
This is one of those messages [...]

I was one of the four people Linda stated who saw “The Weirdest Thing I Have Ever Seen” on the early hours of Saturday 3rd January 2009 – luckily our friend had her camera and managed to grab these shots of the Orange light.
To add yet more credence to our sighting, today, thanks to my [...]

Its Mad Friday!
For those of you who don’t know, perhaps because the tradition, much like Mischief Night, hasn’t managed to spread its wings far from the Grim North where it began, I’ll explain a little about Mad Friday.
Mad Friday is the Friday before Christmas. It is the day that all of the local tradesmen traditionally [...]

As we often seem to, we’ve been in the right place at the right time to hear about a forthcoming attraction that is set to take the world by storm – this time it is a big night out, which launches in Newcastle next month, and goes by the name of Crispy.
This time, however, we [...]

The Newcastle University Alumni Service generously hosted a free wine and nibbles night at the Baltic in Newcastle last week. The “Gold Network” teamed up with One North East to deliver the “Live Local: Think Global” theme on Thursday 17th July 2008.
Joanna Berry Academic Director of Executive MBA Programmes, Newcastle University Business School, kicked off [...]