Recent Posts Tagged With 'London'

• Another Week!

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 13:10 in work, London, snow, greenwich

  Tuesday: Was quiz night! And, continuing a rather impressive winning streak broken only by the monthly music quiz and our one night off, we won again! Becoming a bit of a habit, and despite belief the contrary we do not cheat! Wednesday: Another ...

• New Greenwich Train Times!

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 12:46 in London, trains, greenwich

  Southeastern Highspeed | Ramsgate Originally uploaded by kpmarekSo today was the first day of Southeastern's radical new timetable. I had two very different experiences. On the way to Cannon Street things were not going smoothly. Firstly it was pr...

• The Week In Briefs

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 07:13 in work, Hot, London, greenwich

  Tuesday: hectic day at work as there was an inspection on. I was selected to represent my team and have an inspector listen in to my calls and ask me questions. This was followed by a trip to the 7th Floor (never been quite that high before!) for a d...

• Stupid Is As Stupid London Does

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 14:27 in London

  I'm no genius. I make mistakes. I'm a flawed and imperfect individual. I recognise this, and whilst I seek to improve I understand that perfection is an impossibility. Yet this cannot stop me believing I live in a city of slobbering idiots. The p...

• GLBT Action Committee

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 13:22 in gay, London, hammersmith

  So today was the second meeting of work's new GLBT action committee, and the first I've been able to attend (not counting Friday's vigil). Ten of us showed up to try and work out what we were actually meant to be doing. It was an interesting group an...

• A Busy Weekend

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 13:17 in London, restaurant, kent, folkestone, hythe, wapping

  Friday night was taken up with the first outing of work's GLBT Action group to the vigil against homophobic violence, which meant I wasn't home until well after 10pm. The next day Jim and I headed down to Mum's new house down in Hythe and whilst we w...

• Trafalgar Square Vigil For Ian Baynham

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 05:10 in gay, work, London, homophobia

  Whilst I was on holiday in Berlin, the GLBT Network at work was formed. Having put my name down for it, I was invited to our first "event" which was to go as a group to the vigil in Trafalgar Square in honour of the life of the recently murdered Ian ...

• Ooo... A Free "Quality" Paper

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 12:37 in London

  The Evening Standard became free today! Despite once getting a column in the London Lite (or perhaps because of), I've always been morally against free newspapers (1) because of the owners and 2) because of the readers who seemed to believe they wer...

• What Is It With People??

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 13:41 in London

  Sitting on my train at Cannon Street, watching a documentary on my iPod, it slowly dawned on me we were running late. Mere moments later the driver came over the tannoy to report that a "member of the public" (for which read "dullard") had walked of...

• A Night In Soho

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 13:35 in London, restaurant, greenwich

  Last night, after work, Jim, Denis, H and I headed to Yauatcha for a meal (although we managed a quick drink in The John Snow, it's a Sam Smith's pub and sadly I decided to have a bourbon and coke. YUCK!).Yauatcha is a dim sum restaurant in Soho, and...

• Cruising The River Thames

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 05:57 in family, London, greenwich

  Friday night, and I was pleased to be home from another week of work. Jim's Mum had arrived from Glasgow during the day so after a brief wash and change of clothes I headed down to meet her and Jim at the local. We had a few drinks with the (off duty...

• A Night On The Town

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 12:47 in London, restaurant

  As you may have guessed from the blurry, drunken pictures posted here last night, I took a dive off the new lifestyle wagon and landed in champagne, wine, Staropramen and a really lovely cinnamon ice cream. It was Karen's birthday (again) and to cele...

• Art Makes Me Laugh

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 12:22 in art, London, o2, greenwich

  So, having promised my Facebook friends that I would do this for days, Jim and I finally took a trip up the Thames to the Tate Modern. We caught a Thames Clipper from Greenwich Pier. Last time I got a boat up the Thames, it was a slow tourist cruise ...

• The Gay Pride Posts

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 15:53 in soho, gay, pride, London, brighton

  Given that it is Pride season, here are my pride posts from throughout the years:My first pride was 2003 London pride. I was 20. I might have been out on the scene for years but I had somehow missed out on the events of pride. Firstly, from reading t...

• I Fought The Trains, The Trains Won

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 12:26 in work, London, commute

  Ever been to Barnes? Me neither, until today that is. Up until now I thought it was famous (and famous only to me at that) only for being a former home of the ever delightful MT. But no it’s much nicer than that. How do I know? Because Barnes was a...

• A Good Friday Night

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 07:40 in work, London, big brother, greenwich, lib dems, hammersmith

  Yoinked from TottylandMmm... this sort of photo warms my... well you know. So... after work yesterday I headed down to the Hop Poles in Hammersmith to partake in some drinks in celebration of ROCHELLE'S birthday (she wanted a mention). Nice to have a...

• Day 9482: So Very Tired

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 14:15 in politics, work, Hot, London, commute, folkestone, greenwich, lib dems

  I have spent about half a day for each of the last three days in training. After 9 months with the company I've learnt about our values, health and safety and HR Branding (still not so sure on this one). Interesting? Sort of, but it was good to meet ...

• Many Moons Have Passed

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 12:57 in work, London, folkestone, lib dems

  Once upon a time I used to work two shifts at TVW (8am – 4.30pm and 4.30pm until 11pm) in order to earn less money than I get now, and for all intents and purposes I am now working 4 day weeks on 8.45am to 5pm shifts. How messed up is that? Yes, D...

• What A Difference A Day Makes

  Posted on Saturday May 23rd, 2009 at 15:16 in work, London

  After finishing work on Thursday, and silently saying a little prayer of thanks to the FSM, I came home to a little stress followed by a nice evening down the local. My plans for a quiet day following a little stress at work were curtailed by an eage...

• Mmm... Steak

  Posted on Saturday May 9th, 2009 at 03:51 in Hot, London, greenwich, spartan

  I had a flexi day yesterday (a bonus I've earned for doing half hour lunches. I should earn about 2 of these a month on top of my normal holiday entitlement) so Jim and I went down to Lewisham and had a Maggie's breakfast. Mmm... always a fulfilling ...

• What A Beautiful Morning

  Posted on Sunday May 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 in London, greenwich, tallness

  Had a rather lovely day yesterday. Spent most of it in the pub, which is always a god start, but also went shopping (although was a rather strange incident where a man accused Jim and I of letching over his girlfriend, LOL). We popped into Pets At Ho...

• The Seat Chasers

  Posted on Friday November 21st, 2008 at 12:14 in work, London, commute, tvw

  I really truly cannot stand one part of my commute, of any journey in fact in London; the seat chasers. These hideous creatures jostle, and push as soon as a train begins to slow as it draws up to the platform and by the time the doors are drawing le...

• Mmmm... Baby Eels!!

  Posted on Tuesday November 4th, 2008 at 12:53 in politics, London

  So... after a hellish day at work which finished with a grown man sobbing down the phone at me, after he had accused me of being homophobic and had kept me behind after work (I don't get paid after 5pm people!! Grrr...), I headed home and had five se...

• Turning A New Page

  Posted on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at 12:46 in work, London

  Tuesday I headed down the pub, reluctantly as I was quite tired, with Jim to have dinner and take part in the pub quiz. Jim and I were on our own once again and were expecting to do poorly, as is our record when it's just the two of us. So you can im...

• Catchy Uppiness

  Posted on Friday October 17th, 2008 at 13:02 in London

  Tuesday night Jim and I joined a few folks down the local for the pub quiz. With much cheating, stupidity and merriment we took 2nd place (and the winning team got double points on one round so we would of won if they were playing fair. ;) ) . That b...

• Sex At The Tube Station

  Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 12:44 in London

  Last night Jim and I had dinner around Gloria and Gus' house as they are soon to head off to Grenada for six months. I'm not jealous. Much. Caz was there too so it was sort of another mini "locals" night out. Gus cooked us some wonderful Caribbean cr...