100,000 people have converted to vegansim this January. Not sure how they know that. Do you have to ‘register’ as a vegan? Do you need a license? Or do they have smug-detectors vans out there just noting the increased activity as they drive round Hackney and Islington? I don’t know. But 100k extra vegans in – Read More-
Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. In case you missed that. He is also, according to a book coming out today, a paranoid retard with the attention span of a goldfish, the mental agility of a rubber plant and the facial colouring of a tangerine. That last bit is perhaps – Read More-
The problem with going on holiday is that you miss the new Star Wars movie when it comes out. We generally go away every Christmas, as we have for 33 years, and every one of those has seen ‘the latest’ Star Wars movie come out. And this year’s one, The Last Jedi (isn’t that me??), – Read More-
I went back to work yesterday. As ya do. When you absolutely have to. And Lila went to school. No more slacking for the babe, time to get real and put in the hours. So at nine months and one day old, off she toddled. Well, she can’t really ‘toddle’ as yet, she can only – Read More-
‘The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls…’ Thus spake Paul Simon, in about 1964. Monumentally brilliant line. One of about 42,000 little snippets of genius and inspiration that the great man has written over his stellar career. Only perhaps eclipsed by the late, great Ian Dury’s sublime social commentary of: ‘my – Read More-
We’re here in San Andres. And its faulty. We’re only here for logistical reasons really. In that we need to fly home at some point, I’m afraid, and to do that you need to go to Bogota. They don’t fly there from Providencia cos the runway’s tiny and you can only fly turbo-props in and – Read More-
I read the news today, oh boy. Sorry: I read the news when I can. If the wifi is working properly, rather than its normal, Caribbean-meantime, ahriiit-mon style, like everything else, I can get the Times. If not I can struggle through some BBC pages. But its Christmas, hence news is in fairly short supply. – Read More-
They call them ‘mules’ round here. Motorised golf carts. They don’t even have windscreen wipers. Kawasaki 600 cc engines nicked off a motorbike and shoved under the seat of a buggy thing. 4-wheel drive, for the beaches, sounds like a lawn mower but isn’t quite as fast. But even at about 25mph (no speedo, no – Read More-
So from Cartagena we need to get to the island of Providencia, in the Western Caribbean. How hard can it be? When our days in Cartagena are spent looking at that very body of water. The problem is that bodies of water are big. Unlike, say, human bodies or glasses of water. And furthermore, access – Read More-
So we’re in Cartagena, still. Cos its lovely. Still. Or perhaps, ‘again’ now the cruise ships have left leaving behind a distinct lack of hats and hundreds of thousands of dollars for the local economy, so they’re not all bad. Part of the charm of Cartagena is that it was a Spanish fort. Which still – Read More-