Ooh free energy today

Big day out around Covent Garden

Exercise stats 24/5/26

Hot day at home

Parkrun 227

Stop the boats!

Sprouts are roasting in the Ninja

Lovely wine tasting

Another work week done

First one up

Someone fixed my Garmin stats

School night comedy

How am I supposed to sleep through this??

Survived another overnighter

Got away with being on call (nearly)

Overnight shift went well

Our connection to the meningitis epidemic

Exhausting relaxing

Bad sleep

I get up when I want, when parkrun is cancelled

Day off went swimmingly

VW camper with an inflatable pop top

Lovely dinner at Pomus

My Macbook is too old to get the os update

Not going to lose this belly today

Run stats 2/1/26 - 5'36/K

Pick of the pops chart rundown of 2025

Went to bed full of ideas to go for a run this morning

Work christmas lunch

Enshortened night in the Potting Shed

I get up when I want @ Camden Underworld 2025

I cleared the last remaining apples from the tree

Lovely weekend

Productive lunch

Wednesday night was a treat

I did not sleep through the night time alarms

Hope I don't sleep through any calls from work

Big London day out

No more calls yet while on call

I got called, while on-call!

Holiday 2025 - Lake Garda

Parkrun cancelled

Different load out for work this week

Parkrun 201

Glastonbury day 2 @ Glastonbury 2025

Glastonbury day -1 @ Glastonbury 2025

Glastonbury day -2 @ Glastonbury 2025

Thinking of running today

Slept really well last night

Did not sleep well

I can't get no sleep

Super long weekend - Portchester Castle

That was a weird Glastonbury dream I just remembered

Full day of trains

Oh yeah stocks are falling

Find my wallet

No more cheap trains

Slept badly, woke up early

Some campervan links I have been saving

Oh the weather was very noisy last night

Another cold day

All new top artists of the week

First round of Glastonbury tickets gone

Alarm did not go off today

Hope I have stopped the radiator rattling

Haunted house

York: day one

Clocks have gone back

I get up when I want, except when there's a weather bomb

Nearly went for a run yesterday

How many work hostel trips is this now?

Hostel heatwave

At last a hostel story (and updated list)

Hostel adventure three @ Leicester Square Theatre 2024

Second hostel adventure and updated list

Hostel adventure and updated list

Murder hostel checklist

Booked a comedy show for next time I stay over for work @ Leicester Square Theatre 2024

Good review of the new Waterloo Wetherspoons

Work, hectic

Really good Thai meal

Idea I had alone in hotel: new sleeper train

Singapore day one

Got up at 6am to do some work

AC/DC weekender part four: Bruges @ festivalpark stenehei 2024

Busy day at work

Awesome day out with friends

Day 2/5 in the office

Now what do we do?

Why did all the Little Chefs disappear?

Boris Johnson is a twat

Oh third night on call went as smoothly as the first

Second night on call went less smoothly

First night on-call went smoothly

I thought this was going to be a different story

Hythe news

Wet day in London

Never Gonna Plank You Up day 2

Runuary day 24

Disturbed sleep

Winter holiday to Marrakech part 2 - arrival at the hotel

Winter holiday to Marrakech part 1 - flight etc

Proper dinner

London Friday

The thunderstorm properly arrived overnight

Holiday 2023 - Bath day one

Holiday 2023 - birthdays

Not much sleep @ Barfly 2023

The final London KISS show? @ O2 Arena 2023

To Nottingham

More heatwave @ Royal Festival Hall 2023

London weekender: The Prince Of Greenwich

London weekender: Friday night dinner in Greenwich

Folkestone is getting a Greggs

Great long weekend in London

Want to buy a beetle?

Runuary day fifteen

Runuary day five

Runuary day three

No rain today, but windy

Brussels and Cologne the full story

The Puttshack scores are in

Missed eco hour in a big way yesterday

Strikes unfair at christmas, says tory chairman

Genius boy found his bag

Back on a strict no drinking in the week regime again

Good day yesterday but no parkrun

Who remembers proper binmen? @ HQ Club 2022

Nothing to report

Still beating the heating

It is quiet @ The King And Queen 2022

There is a Tile tracking tag attached to my office chair

Covid, day one billion @ Electric Ballroom 2022

Midlife Eurotour part eight - Rome

Is this covid day four?

Midlife Eurotour part seven - sleeper train to Rome

Midlife Eurotour part six - Bratislava

Covid finally caught us

Midlife Eurotour part five - Vienna

Did not sleep so well

Midlife Eurotour part four - sleeper train to Vienna

Midlife Eurotour part three - Cologne

Midlife Eurotour part two - Brussels

Midlife Eurotour part one

Packed?

Booked the final parts of my grand Eurotour

Extra busy extra chaos London birthday midweek weekender (part two)

The magnificent seven @ The Hawley Arms 2022

Hot again but the roads are moving

Vienna space pod!

Sports day

Booked another part of my grand eurotrip, nearly done now

Weird week, wife working lates

Graphtastic now

Is the Sandgate Hotel opening again?

We have had a birthday this week

200km in May DONE

Only one person spotted I am not in London today

Work Friday fun day

Easter London trip

The Great Escape is happening

Are the wheels coming off the trans-europe express already?

Not quiet night in

Drizzly sort of day here

Secret recliner action

Runuary day thirty

Runuary day twenty-seven

Runuary day twenty-six

Runuary day three

No you spilled wine on the new sofa

We bought a sofa

Enjoyed Eurovision

Inn Doors opens today, but back to the office soon

Hard Tuesday

I think I saw a dead dolphin

About the hospital

Lonely lunch

Back to school

Cash back

One out of hospital, one in hospital

Another night in hospital

Free ride in an ambulance

Our new worker got home safely

Runuary day six, double bubble

Actually back at work

No run today did not sleep well

I tried in the Strava-art work challenge, really I did

This den is done!

Bought a big new TV

Updated shopping list

Boy's birthday went well

Great non-weekend London weekender

Clare is outrunning me

Worst 10k ever

I messed up the shepherds pie

Socially distanced food fair

Lazy day today for me

Banksy's Art Buff is back in Folkestone

I am designing new beds for the boys

BACK from our holiday to London and Warwick (day one)

Do not buy a dyson until you hear back from me

Fifteen years ago today

Why do I sleep so badly on a Tuesday?

Second cataract operation done

Parkrun is still on

£25 on the premium bonds this month

What is a biome?

Dry-vegan-runuary day seventeen

Struggled to get up again today

Slept for ages, woke up feeling dreadful

Vegan-dry-runuary day eight

Planned to get up and run early before work, really I did

Did not sleep so well last night

New Years Eve at the Inn Doors

Merry Christmas

Cold and damp out there but could be worse

Poor step count for last week

I had a dream about api responses

Good job I am not obsessed with my stepcount any more

Windy parkrun today

Dire weather but a great weekend

A very rare double night out @ Quarterhouse 2019

Just about survived Clare being away

I thought Friday was an epic day of exercise @ Unit Number 1 Limited 2019

Worse weather and broken government

Epic excursion to Bristol @ The Seagull 2019

Active day with the boys

It is very quiet

No parkrun today

I just discovered a new space in our house

Good parkrun, new pb

Gulls aloud (aargh no sleep)

Tap tap tap... also sports

Super storm last night

Website hosting 2.09

Holiday 2019 day one

Back to work

Meant to go to town today but will be short on time

Sad little evacuee today

Speedy Suede weekend with a lot of trains @ Southampton Guildhall 2019

Up early could not sleep

21 hours to get to the funeral @ The Seagull 2019

The first person has booked their first sabbatical already

Nan died today

Don't put your hot tub online

Nan no better

Nan still in hospital and a bit confused

Tax return done 💅

Folkestone parkrun results for event

Awake at 4:30 @ Islington Assembly Hall 2018

Cold dark run this morning

New York final day

New York day two

Different route today

Bathroom in the middle, bed at the back

Late night semi-disaster at work

Cold, dark, slow

Great food festival in Canterbury today

Early start

This week is not quite over before I knew it

Up early but no running

Couch To 5K week six

An update from the school about Fortnite reads like an ad

Not very well dear

I just do not sleep on Tuesdays

Excellent bread from the Harbour Arm

Good lunches in Bulgaria, bad dinners

Sofia work trip

Burgers (honest)

London weekender day two

London weekender part 1

Walked to Tesco and back

Hmm just realised last night I slept well

Actually not all is quiet on new years day

Sleeping

Busy bee

No coffee did not help the not sleeping

Remind me today, no coffee

When you name these storms, it makes them stronger

Public "tricked" into buying unhealthy food

A lot of rain last night

Early start

Super weekend

Diet day today, and work review day, so I am furious

Work Jolly to Bulgaria

Another day without food, another night without sleep

Nice day for a bike ride

Up early again today

Overnight in Slough @ The Moon and Spoon 2017

Up at three thirty

Walked through Folkestone on Sunday @ Steep Street Coffee House 2017

Hot day again today

Vegetable miso soup was good

Fell asleep on the sofa last night @ Ship Inn 2017

I'm up so everyone get up @ Folkestone Sports Centre 2017

Last pub of the night: Brewdog @ Brewdog 2017

Pre-booked dinner at Strada @ Strada Camden 2017

Slept better last night

Hella tired, woke up at 2am

We're ready to christmas!

Booked a year in advance, but @ Wembley Arena 2016

Too hectic to post anything

People of America you have let us down

Amazing VW bus based mini caravan

Kept my step count up since losing my FitBit

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO I was at Wolfsbane @ The Marquee 2016

Yes really dinner at TGI Friday

Premier Inn Old Street a bit noisy

Poor sleep last night

A huge walking day on Saturday

Dinner in Zizzi @ Zizzi 2016

First night we ate at Cafe Rouge, for the last time @ Cafe Rouge 2016

Day off

And 10k by lunchtime again of course

6k by breakfast time

Cool "secret bedroom" in Berlin underground

Splendid night away in London @ Leicester Square Theatre 2016

I had beer! At Kings Cross Parcel Yard @ The Parcel Yard 2016

Splendid Saturday in London @ Natural History Museum 2016

Swapped my lie in

Quite a productive few days here @ Brixton Academy 2015

Home brew is still good

I can't get my hands clean enough

I bought Clare a Fitbit Charge

Good long weekend so far!

Also stayed in the Premier Inn

Got my new phone now too

50'' Sony smart tv for 650 quid

Last minute christmas non-shopping @ ASK Pizzeria 2014

Clare is at the opera AGAIN @ Royal Opera House 2014

Quiet day at home today

I slept strangely well last night

Number one son's gymnastics class is all booked up!

Thermal probes arrived

London midweek weekender part four @ Plum Tree Cafe 2014

London midweek weekender part three @ The Lost Hour 2014

For number one son @ Hallamshire House Hotel 2014

The heavy rain just made my security camera kick in

Had a lovely weekend btw

Not sleeping so well

Human remains found in a garden in Portchester

La Victoria Arduino

Dream day out @ The Harp Bar 2014

My favourite point of the weekend

I won't do a roundup of the year

The Wine Vaults @ The Vaults 2013

Big weekend out @ The Seagull 2013

Cursed, my fault

Magic Numbers @ Revelation St Mary 2013

Great weekend

And we're back...

A great birthday weekend

That storm came then

Bought a new solar panel

Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment

DIY electrics

Number two son up at 2.30

The google plus has changed then

Number two son slept right through again last night

Oh and last night Number two son slept through!

Nice weekend, kind of lazy weekend

A good night with Number two son, then a slightly disturbed one again

Number two son was up at 4am today

I woke up before Number two this morning

Swimming today

And my view just got better

Not a super weekend of sleeping

Up at 5am today

Sleep

And got my asterisk install working again

Number two son woke early, but then when back to sleep again @ Chambers 2013

Sick!

Number two son slept eight hours

A couple of days off

Strange day with Number two son

Number two son is sleeping noisily right now

Damp day

Sitting up tonight

The boy's christmas play

Noisy night's sleep

Good night's sleep!

Nothing wrong with the boy's hearing

Cold again

Slept for five or six hours straight yesterday!

Day of hospitals

We have come up with a genuinely useful use for the lightwaverf remote sockets!

Went to the Sandgate Hotel

More sleep / less feeding last night.

More details on the super weekend

Who broke the internets???

I say "fine night's sleep"...

Fine night's sleep for me

Not such a good night's sleep

I think I bummed my new website!

Good weekend, with some sleep!

Good night's sleep last night

Number two son had a less peaceful night

A peaceful day

Can you help with my six wire stepper motor?

Is this day seven?

Can we fix it? Yes we can!

modem status: ppp server down

New baby day three

Last night I dreamt that I died!

Bad back still bad

A night of good sleep, following another night of poor sleep

Did you sleep well dear?

Sleeping like a baby

We arranged the blinds for the garage conversion this weekend

Turkey 2012 - we flew with Thomas Cook

Big Boy Bed

Touch me I'm sick

Damn lost my big weekend round up in cleaning up the spam

Lovely weekend, with snow

An early start

Sony Bravia KDL24EX320W LED HD 1080p TV, 24 inch, Freeview with Built-in Wi-Fi, White

Just waiting for the nod to leave work

Cloud move was 99% perfect @ Britannia Inn 2011

Cloud day

Very successful day

Other pubs we went to at the weekend: The Bell @ The Bell Inn 2011

Curry night was good

Lovely weekend

Look who's gone to school today

Brilliant weekend

Toasted bagels @ Brill 2011

Hangover @ Ship Inn 2011

Woke up feeling refreshed

Not sleeping @ Tofts 2011

Foggy today

Christmas sickness

rake cucumber:wip

Cold, wet feet @ Spice Cottage 2010

The boy up and wailing at five am today

The boy's woken in the night EVERY DAY this week

At FOWA 2010 @ The Brewery 2010

Infrared repeater works well

A weekend off DIY @ St Mary's field 2010

Semi fiascous weekend

The packing is going well

Fridge man has been

Lovely birthday @ Zizzi 2010

The boy is not happy about the last day of me being 37

He cries in the night, Daddy whispers baby it's OK @ Googies Art Cafe 2010

Great family pub/restaurant/hotel @ Castle Hotel 2010

Nothing to say today

Dull weather, not good boot fairs

If this was not so pixelated... @ The Marquee 2010

What a cracking day @ Wagamama 2010

Daily blog stats

An undisturbed night's sleep

Portsmouth victory televised

Following the herds down to Greece

4am start today

A rude awakening

I am ubuntuing

I went out two nights in a row! @ Royal Albert Hall 2010

Woken up to NO WATER

Recommend someone to value our Folkestone flat for lettings?

Moving day

Escaped the snow today @ Karl's Good Food 2010

All those pins stuck in all those maps had to have a consequence sooner or later

Don't cross me today!

HMV on the verge of buying Channelfly @ Barfly 2009

Twelve hours plus uninterrupted sleep

Happy birthday the boy

Tweeting this post / gig / venue

Top night of TV

My notes from #FOWA

Portchester Man in the news

Another successful sleep through the night

Woohoo eight hours sleep!

Back to front weekend

Nice day in Canterbury

WEIRD sleep pattern last night...

Less tired today

Nearly as exciting as a new nephew

Baby update

RT @darryl1974 The demolition of the Astoria in pictures: @ London Astoria 2009

Cool baby grows @ Folkestone Harbour 2009

Good bath last night

Slumber bear

Where'd my paternity leave go?

I think he's getting better already

A whole heap of wrong things here

Yeah I knew it had to get better

RE: Goodnight - 12724

Goodnight

RE: The boy not settling at all - 12722

The boy not settling at all

Blur warmup at Rough Trade East RIGHT NOW!

Another nice day with the family

Got a spare couple of hours to myself! @ Chambers 2009

Cereal? Soup? @ British Lion 2009

RE: New picture - 12709

Day two. Would the boy please come to the diary room... @ British Lion 2009

RE: Happy birthday! - 12696

Happy birthday!

RE: Due day - 12636

RE: Baby grow - 12493

Baby grow

Anywhere I roam (part 1.5)

Still no review of The Cure then @ O2 Arena 2009

Had a great valentines day

We have snow today

Munich @ Dillinger Chicago Bar'n Grill 2009

RE: Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail - 11670

Lost!

You had to outdo us didn't you, rest of the country?

Weather report part two

RE: Fake GAP voucher - 10708

Short weekend

TFI The Weekend

Tracey Emin will be scattering childrens clothes around our town @ Leas Cliff Hall 2007

RE: Who are you Kenn Goodall? - 10409

Great weekend

Long weekend @ Abode 2007

I used to see Allan about once a year

I figured it must have been an earthquake and went to sleep

RE: Boom shake the room! - 10167

Sleep easy families of South London

Too busy being festive to update

Updates

I thought things looked funny from the train last night

Fun night out @ the Coach and Horses 2006

Original Harry Clarke artwork

How am I letting this slip now I have *more* time on my hands..?

Top 100 best popex players

Weird traininess thing going on

Train fun

School's out for, ooh, a long time now

Back into the routine

Not such a good start to the week @ Chambers 2006

Trains and IPODs

Another scorcher

Bad Twin

Squirrel plants super walnut tree

No pea soup for breakfast today

Firefox extension of the day

All mine all mine @ Escondido 2006

I dream of dreaming

Cackling, dozy

No, *not* grey squirrel curry!

Boo... RAH! @ Twickenham 2006

All my pictures at once

Lovely day today @ Sandgate Hotel 2006

Ooh yeah I got google chat today

Weekend report @ Leas Cliff Hall 2006

Having a whale of a time @ Lanterns 2006

I'm a morning person!!!!

24 ways

I have a dream

Up to my elbows in computer bits

RE: Clubbing in the week - 4027

Clubbing in the week

Shut outside the office in the cold for AN HOUR!

What's that weather all about then?

Not a very relaxing weekend then @ Chambers 2005

Monterey

San Francisco

Weekend review

A cut in UK interest rates next month now appears likely

Doesn't that last post look a bit weak now?

Have Google blocked access to their maps?

iTunes to support podcasts / blogcasts

sleep

The rules of commuting

Mushroom Magic

Yes might well do

The right carriage!

Doctor Doctor please

Commuting, day two

Sleepy weekend @ The Frog and Frigate 2005

Goodnight!

Folkestone mushroom magic

Quantum Sleeper

Pie

Mozilla are go

British Library Newspaper Library

You wait ages for a complaint about the 106 @ Brixton Academy 2004

Big weekend then @ Gate 28 2004

Hey Crackhead

damp poisoning

Pop Factory Awards

A good night's sleep

Shepway Festival and Air Show

PEACE! @ The Daniel Defoe 2003

TRAPPED! @ The Birdcage 2003

Dids @ 93 Feet East 2003

Am I still asleep?

Always one to slap a good idea on the back @ Docklands Arena 2001

In The City Unsigned

All the band (well, James, Nicky and Sean)

Useful as a source of industry mutterings

PopBitch A-Z Results @ Yo Below 2001

Mercury Nominations

Bobby Gillespie

Captain Soul This Weekend

Latest on the Coldplay split: @ Brixton Academy 2001

Merry Christmas

How is stuff like this allowed to happen?

Kathryn Williams @ Spitz @ Spitz 2000

What a Shower of CUTS

Paul Weller @ Hylands Park 1996

Menswear @ Camden Underworld 1995

Sleeper @ Portsmouth Pyramids 1995