Yep, I got there in the end. Nice, isn’t it? As of this week, I am now a 1st Degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I started on the journey to get this over 10 1/2 years ago, on 1st September 1997. I was 17, and was sick of phoning my mates […]

Just booked tickets for this even for me, my Tae Kwon Do mate Natalie and her boyfriend (a 3rd dan in Tae Kwon Do)…it’s a huge exhibition of martial arts and combat stalls at London’s ExCeL venue in East London. Stalls, events, displays, seminars…in hundreds of martial arts styles. For anyone who is […]

aka recycling your spam in your ‘junk’ folder of your email and making bizarre poetry from the subject headings. Here is today’s offering from the remnants of my Hotmail ‘junk’ folder:
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Delivery failure
April is make love month
Look good in any pants
Unleash titan
New gigantic rod is easy to get!
Freedom of choice, you decide what you want today
Click […]

So today I finished watching a brilliant but short-lived US TV series called Dead Like Me. Here’s the trailer for season 2 - which REALLY doesn’t do it justice, and is peppered with sickly sweet upbeat American movie style music, but get past that and this explains the crux of the show:

The premise is […]

What’s the pic? It’s a pic of the best thing I ate in London Town this weekend, that is. Behold, the chocolate biscuit cake, courtesy of Hackney vegan co-op food joint, the Pogo Cafe:

And I’d already eaten half of this big ol’ chocolatey, biscuit, gooey, raisiny, culinary momma-beast of a cake. *This* […]