Just to demonstrate that I have been using all my abundant time effectively, I have a question I would like you to consider.

You see, I’ve been catching up on some documentary viewing (shark related, of course) and spending a lot of time messing about on the ol’ laptop.
And what I don’t get is why there [...]

Back in New Zealand, if there was a 120 year old pub in the centre of a grand Victorian experiment in urban housing that would go on to influence how suburbs are built around the world, still serving booze and decent food… Well, it would be a national landmark.
The pub in question is the Tabard [...]

I am on the 6:30am train to London on Saturday and I haven’t even started packing.

I’m in complete denial!
And because it’s my last day at the beeb I have been asked to have a couple of drinks after work. I can only assume this means that I will be packing drunk (again!).
Literally anything is preventing [...]

I’m down to my last few days at the dear old beeb and also my last few days in Bristol.
Talk has turned to plans for what I will need in London, how we manage the alternate weekends, etc. You see, it all makes perfect sense in theory (like communism) but life keeps getting in the [...]

News is starting to trickle out about my imminent departure.
People are being really, really nice about it. I thought it would have been all “Gordon WHO? Ohhh… The fat guy from South Africa.”
But no!
Which is really nice because I have been feeling terribly guilty about the whole thing.
Excited… But guilty.