This weekend I attended an all-night film festival for the Sci-fi London Oktoberfest — about 10 hours of icecream, red-bull and the hilarity of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3K). On the programme it’s listed as “Seriously funny {stuff}!”, and it really was. I arrived at the Odeon West End (near …

Indulged our thespian hearts with a trip to Shakespeare”s New Globe Theatre last night. First: dinner at Harry”s Bar in the city. Named after a famous cocktail (coquetier! eggcup!) bar in Venezia, Italia (Venice, Italy ;-)), Harry”s of London shares, well, nothing with it”s Italian namesake: it”s a …

After a “hearty” breakfast of pancakes and golden-syrup (f*ck you, maple-syrup), made by yours truly no less, we’re off to the shops for supplies: hot coals (well, cold coals to start with), unidentifiable meat (snags), potatoes, cabbage, carrot (obligatory salads). Anything I’ve forgotten? Oh yeah, …

Today we bought our aeroplane tickets back to Australia for December-January, after a weekend of research and planning (for both the cheapest tickets, and how we were actually best going to pay for ’em). In the end, we had a good deal from Austravel which Dee printed took into Flightcenter to see if …

Let’s talk about the restaurant. It looked quite respectable from the outside — down a little lane way, a bit posh but not too garish, expensive-but-reasonable dishes on the small menu card outside. We were early, so went inside and downstairs for a drinks … to a bar with the worst interior I’d ever …

As the end of the year draws close so too does a number of “traditional” milestones – namely Christmas and more importantly Dee’s 30th birthday. 30 has always been one of the big ones — the first birthday when you start counting in decades rather than years, something to be dreaded, especially for …