Spare bed in Oslo 4th to 8th August?
July 28, 2007
I’m in Oslo August 4th to 14th (going to see Rolling Stones on the 8th) and I have no place to sleep on the 4th to 8th. I did have vague promises from a friend, but that fell through (his work sent him to Denmark unexpectedly). Contact me if you can help, or if you simply want to meet up.
Monday
July 28, 2007
Is going to be interesting…
Parking hostility
July 3, 2007
Islington residents recently voted yes to higher parking charges for gas guzzlers. This is wonderful news. Anyone driving enormous 4×4 vehicles in London deserve what they get. Buy an environmentally friendly car, jackass.
I don’t know what the charges will be, but here is my suggestion: Let’s first find out how much it would cost to hire a person to continuously drive your car around the block while you’re not using it. Then, let’s make the parking charges just enough cheaper than that for it not to be an economically viable solution. Alternatively, let’s make it economically viable but an offence punishable by destruction of your car.
No Smoking
July 1, 2007
Nadia and I went to the Northgate, on the corner Northchurch road and Southgate road, to celebrate the smoking ban finally kicking in across England. It is not a moment too soon, and we’ve been looking forward to it for ages.
Nadia had roast whole plaice with baby vegetables and champagne sauce, while I went for halibut with lentils and green beans. Nadia found the plaice a bit bland and undercooked, while I really enjoyed the halibut. It was dry in places and juicy in others, but very tasty all the way through.
For dessert Nadia had chocolate grand marnier truffles with vanilla cream, while I had vanilla panacotta with a berry compote. We ended up eating about half of each other’s, and we found that the dishes were a fantastic mix.
One downside was that they’ve stopped doing Peetermans, but this was compensated a bit by me finding out that they had both Früli and Kriek—albeit bottled.
