i’m Spartacus!

November 17th, 2009 - No Comments - Category: my diary

Firstly this week, I would like to offer heartfelt and sincere congratulations, my sympathies and a little apology to our newest outed lady member, the delightful Dr Brooke Magnanti aka ‘Belle de Jour’ diarist and therefore by proxy, much-discussed sensationalist television staple.
Dr Magnanti (who is fortunate indeed to be blessed with a given name which [...]

the times they are a changin’…

November 4th, 2009 - 3 Comments - Category: my diary

Well, the pleasantly mild and balmy autumn days of the last couple of weeks have today given way to rain the like of which I have not seen since my last holiday in the tropics, although any similarity between the Maldivian paradise I enjoyed slightly over a year ago and the north Yorkshire coast not [...]