29 Aug 2025
I thought I had no limit when it came to weird fringe shows. I'll go to pretty much anything except
comedians (unless I know for a fact that they are funny). It turns out, I do ha...
29 Jan 2025
My best lockdown whim was buying a digital piano off Gumtree. A close second was the 400 banana breads. Not even featuring is the sourdough starter my friend gifted me, that I imme...
4 Sept 2024
This year I went to 24 fringe shows. This was due to a combination of fringe visitors and an intense fear of missing out. I don't have a sophisticated ranking system, which is odd,...
1 Aug 2024
I've generously titled this 'New York Part II' as if Part I wasn't 9 years ago. But fortunately on my first trip, I did all the Statue of Liberty-esque things, so this post will be...
14 Mar 2024
It's a very special time of year - the anniversary of when I went to Berlin last year. I didn't put up a blog post about it then because my blog was broken. But now my blog is fixe...
5 Nov 2023
I'd never travelled solo. I've experienced some stressful travel-related adventures - nauseating malaria tablets, sticking my hand through a rotten log and getting my arm covered i...
30 Aug 2023
As I sat in a lecture theatre with 25 other audience members, watching an Irish lady dressed as the Virgin
Mary's vagina sing Celtic chants about feminism, I thought, ...
27 Aug 2023
I've already explained about the run by my pals Sam and Kris in Ghost Adventures Part I, but if clicking on those links is too much effort, it's a ghost hunting club that go to spo...
7 Mar 2022
The trouble with inviting me to an overnight ghost hunt in the Edinburgh vaults is that not only do I not believe in ghosts, I'm also a bit of a dick about it. I'm that person who ...
18 Jun 2020
The burning question eating away at us all in these trying times - 'What if we run out of parsley?'. Well fear no more, because I've accidentally grown enough parsley to make garli...
4 May 2020
My friend Sam told me about Corona Bingo. Fortunately it isn't a neighbourhood window bingo event because I'd definitely feel like I had to participate in that and it would be cold...
19 Apr 2020
Flippantly taking our lives in our hands (according to everyone I told I was going to South Africa), we rented a car and drove from Johannesburg airport to Kruger Park. The other d...