I realise that this post may not be relevant for many people, but if you should find yourself in Milan’s Linate airport with access to a lounge, the Priority Pass lounge has moved and is now called the Leonardo lounge. The good news is that the new lounge is much nicer than the old one, [...]
For the first time I was on the Eurostar and it was still light outside. This means that you can see much more clearly just how fast you’re going. 186mph/300kph is Properly Fast! Speaking to a colleague at work, I’m told that making phone calls on the Eurostar when it’s at full speed is problematic [...]
Gosh, I’ve just noticed how long it’s been since I posted anything here. May 2009 is the most recent post before today. In my defence, I have been rather busy I married the very lovely Ruth on October 21st last year. In the Las Vegas Hilton. And oh my goodness, it was fabulous. We stayed [...]
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Posted 06 February 2010
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canals and boating § dr jan's tip from the top § holidays § lounging § travel
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I recently had to change my broadband provider, mainly as a result of moving house. Previously on Twin Peaks I was with Virgin Media. I had a fibre-optic cable in to the house which provided cable TV, phone and broadband services. The broadband ran at a nifty 20Mbps (20 mega bits per second) for downloads. [...]
I first heard the word ‘guestage’ on BBC London 94.9 (formerly GLR – Greater London Radio), the BBC’s local radio station for London on the Gideon Coe show. Something like “…we have some excellent guestage coming up this afternoon…”. It’s a fabulous word which just invites you to create lots of new words in a [...]
Easter Monday I went with selected friends and family to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert, a musical in London’s West End starring Jason Donovan. Everything about the show was completely fabulous! I haven’t had such a good time for ages Of course I loved the outrageous costumes, the fantastic footwear and the marvellous men, [...]
I’m pleased to report that the Benz Is Back! The Mercedes-Benz C43 AMG is in rather better shape than it has been of late Previously on Twin Peaks, the battery had become completely flat, mainly due to a complete lack of driving activity. I have been in the habit of taking it out for a [...]
…and use. I’ve recently discovered http://www.openstreetmap.org. It’s a collaborative wiki-style map of the entire world. Google maps (and pretty much every other variety available on the web) are very restrictive in terms of what you can do with them. They have to be, because they are, in turn, restricted by their licence agreements with the [...]
On our recent trip to Scotland our hire car turned out to be a Vauxhall Zafira. The second hire car was also a Zafira – we had to return the first one almost immediately because the windscreen washer failed to work. We had to return the second Zafira the next day, because when I opened [...]
It’s panto season again – hurrah! I kicked off the season with Aladdin at the New Victoria theatre in Woking. I went with a whole bunch of people from work and some friends and had a rather jolly evening out Bradley Walsh was excellent as Wishee Washee, and I particularly enjoyed the Genie of the [...]