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All items with tags: 2004Blog A day in the life
Hits 744 | Last Modified Such is the capriciousness of life that if I vary the time that I leave the house on a morning, by so much as a minute, then I arrive a good twenty minutes later at French School. Blog  Ambassade Review
Hits 586 | Last Modified I don't normally date reviews as I like them to be, ahem, timeless, but in this case, I think it is important, as this bar has just opened. Otherwise, if you read this in six months time you might wonder what on earth I'm talking about. It is August 2004. Blog Another party Hits 521 | Last Modified Ah, another party, and one I remember this time. How novel. Blog  Barraca Bar
Hits 610 | Last Modified Barraca brings back hazy memories of an extremely long and confusing film, watched at mostly-naked hippy festivals, some years ago. So, I'm loaded with these connections when I wander in, at about 7pm on a Tuesday. Blog  Bily Kun
Hits 567 | Last Modified Ah, jazz night. I used to go to a great little pub in Lancaster, England on a Sunday afternoon where a jazz band used to play and they gave away free sausages. It was, inventively, called 'Jazz and Sausages', or something equally clever. The point is this though, I used to love those Sunday afternoons in that pub. Blog  Blood
Hits 546 | Last Modified So I'm washing up. This is something I must have done, oh at least 1,000 times or more. And I'm surprised I haven't cut myself before actually. Think about it – a sink full of sharp knives and glasses. Not a very safe thing to be plunging your hands into, really. Misc  Camping Checklist 2004
Hits 579 | Last Modified A camping check list from Canada, 2004. Blog Cock Sucking Cowboys Hits 833 | Last Modified I often spend large parts of my day searching the internet for signs of my presence. I like to imagine that everyone does this, and that it isn't just an egocentric preoccupation of mine. Blog Cough Twice Please Hits 559 | Last Modified I’ve got a cough, so my wife brings me a bottle of syrup home from the chemist. Blog Decking Day Hits 564 | Last Modified Today was a decking day. A day where I wrestled with wood that really means me no harm, but is causing me some anyway. I'm stripping down the decking and planning to stain the lovely natural wood a nice colour and leave it like that. Presently it is a nasty blue colour, who knows what the previous tenants were thinking? Blog Finally back Hits 485 | Last Modified Back. Finally back. After three years away, and seven countries later, we arrive at Heathrow at 7am, after leaving Montreal at, oddly, 7am. I've watched, and god only knows why, a Harry Potter movie, and drank a few Gin and Tonics. I'm feeling rather tired as I stare out at the drizzle and grey clouds. Blog  Football in the Park
Hits 528 | Last Modified I haven't played football since I had the ball kicked in my face by a smiling Indian several years ago, on a beach in Goa. Blog Hypocrite Hits 466 | Last Modified I can see the man, in the distance, and I know that he has decided to home in on me, to beg for some change. Blog Ike's Party Hits 543 | Last Modified Okay, here's the deal. If someone tells you that they're having a cinq-a-sept party in Montreal, don't believe them, and certainly don't arrive at 5pm. 5 a 7 is the time in Montreal when cheap drinks are had in many bars around town, to attract the after work drinkers, but the term is now used to generally denote an afternoon, or early evening drinking session, also with the implication of cheap or interesting drinks. Blog Immigration D-Day Hits 475 | Last Modified Of course, we only actually look at the letter in detail, mulling over its consequences, the night before my interview, which is at 10am the next day. Blog Jana's Party Hits 564 | Last Modified Okay, so Jana has another party. Only this time she knows all about this website and even greets me with the words, 'Oh Ralph, I hope you will write about this party. But, I'm not drunk enough yet to say anything funny.' Blog Job Seeker Hits 528 | Last Modified I'm early, of course, so I sit outside McGill metro on a hard stone wall. After several minutes in the sun I realise that I'm beginning to sweat, a definite no-no at interviews, so move to the shade, where I'm cold. Blog La Mauricie Hits 532 | Last Modified Getting out of Montreal is one of the pleasures of living in Montreal. Every so often, it is essential to leave the city and surround yourself with trees, rolling fields, and fresh air. So, we loaded up the car with all kinds of un-essential things and headed for the highway. Blog La Police Hits 516 | Last Modified Hands up who likes the police? Blog  Memento
Hits 527 | Last Modified Have you ever seen that film, Memento? Well, if I drink spirits, then my life becomes like that. Blog Montreal Decking (1) Hits 520 | Last Modified My mother-in-law decided that it would be nice to have her patio decking ‘done’, and what that means is that I’ll be doing it out of the goodness of my heart. Blog Party of Leaf and Xena Hits 474 | Last Modified I wondered for a while if I should, in fact, write a review of this party, mainly because it didn't end so well for me, personally. But, life is life, and it does deserve a write up, in reality. I also took no pictures during the evening, but I've had some sent to me since, and so I'll use one of them... I'm sure Karloff won't mind. Blog Signing On Hits 547 | Last Modified So I finally decide to call the council and sign on. Blog Stained Hits 529 | Last Modified Out, damned spot. And so on. I know it seems like all I ever talk about is my bloody decking saga these days - the job I'll be doing in Hell for all eternity, no doubt, but here it is again. Take heart though, it should be over soon. Blog The Chemist Hits 580 | Last Modified Something that has been playing on my mind was the visit when we picked up the notorious stain. We were out in the countryside and decided to pop in on some relatives (theirs, not mine) and met an odd Czech man called Tom who grew a lot of chillis and even had some chilli jam/jelly which he made me try. Blog The Compleat Vegetarian Hits 566 | Last Modified I often joke with people that I became a vegetarian to impress a couple of hippy girls I once lived with, and although this is partially true, it is not the whole truth. At the time I had been reading a lot of books on religion, learning about meditation and generally becoming, well, more hippy than I was anyway. Slowly, over time, I began to have nagging doubts about meat. Blog The Three Kings Hits 503 | Last Modified The first big pub night since our return. Venue: The Three Kings in Farringdon. This is an old haunt from out last life in London, and I have memories of standing outside in the street on warm summer evenings, sipping Guinness in the road. The pub is so small that there are never any seats, I reflect as we take the tube there. Blog The Wife's 30th Birthday Hits 556 | Last Modified I think perhaps that I should leave parties an hour before the end, to avoid the bizarre and hazy events that generally ensue after hearty alcohol consumption at 2AM. But, if the party is your own (or your wife's), then you're honour-bound to stay until the end. |
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