that canadian girl

Category: General Entries

  • Quick note: Doctor Who on Saturday night, 7pm

    Since I feel BBC have done a pretty poor job of announcing the new season of Doctor Who, I wanted to post a quickie to say it’s starting this Saturday at 7pm on BBC One. Set your Sky Plus boxes,…

  • Spending the week on Cloud Nine

    When I was a kid, I used to get this feeling all the time. This floating feeling that life’s great, like you could explode if it gets any better. As grownups, we’re busy, stressed, worried over all sorts of trivial…

  • Active Hotels joins the blogging world

    While we’re on the topic of travel blogging, I couldn’t help but introduce the Active Hotels blog, which we launched in February. As you may or may not know, I send the Active Hotels weekly newsletter, in which I try…

  • International Shut Down Day?

    Can you cope without your computer for one day? That’s the question Shutdownday.org is asking. They are encouraging everyone to switch off for 24 hours, on the 24th March 2007, and so far 13% are already admitting they cannot go…

  • Around the world in as long as you like

    I love travelling, world history, new exotic food, but I sadly spend very little time seeing the world. So I live vicariously through some of my favourite travel blogs. Darren at Travel Rants is organising a Blog-a-thon Challenge, with the…

  • Not quite as God intended

    This one had me in fits of giggles… Enjoy!

  • Average British menu limited to four dishes

    I gasped at the stats I heard this morning on Radio 1 and had to go find the original article myself for a bit more information. Research highlights our lack of imagination in the kitchen, with few of us bothering…

  • Boiler nightmare over

    In fact, it was over on Friday, but I’ve been having a three-day-long shower to warm up and take advantage of the fact that we have hot water again. Ok, just kidding. I do think of the environment… sometimes. Thanks…

  • The Baxi boiler from Hell

    I’m having a sucky day. No, actually, that’s an understatement. I’m having a “Karma’s a bitch” day. This morning, for no apparent reason, the boiler died. We tried what we could to find out whether some fuse had blown out…

  • Coffee machine cleaning tip from LifeHacker

    Following my post about my new Senseo coffee machine, here’s a clever trick from Gina at LifeHacker for owners of similar coffee machines. Cleaning your coffee machine with a round of vinegar helps keep it free from bad stuff, and…