Pimp My Taxi

In between hours of staring blankly at pages of code and other gibberish on my computer screen, I have been occupied by my latest passion - the black london taxicab I bought a few weeks ago. It is seriously good fun to drive around in, and we both argue over who's turn it is every time we need to go somewhere. I have had it checked out by a taxi mechanic, and he reckons it's good for another hundred thousand miles at least. When the sun shines, I nip outside with my T-cut, BackToBlack, vinyl roof polish, WD40 etc, and tinker with it. As if this isn't daft enough, I have just ordered a wooden steering wheel, chrome hubcaps, and an assortment of other chromey bits to fancy it up a bit. Alison wants to do up the interior in a kind of Indian retro chic stylee, with mad carpet, cushions and dangly things. I want a decent stereo with a subwoofer wotsit and a set of chrome bumpers. We are all being silly buggers this week.

Christmas Comes Early

We got a call a few days ago confirming that Ellie and Oscar are to play the parts of Kate and Walter Dickens, the children of Charles Dickens, in a BBC documentary about "A Christmas Carol". They are both very excited about being on the telly, apparently they get to decorate a christmas tree and open lots of presents. Shooting starts next week, which is a slight problem because Oscar fell off the back of the sofa on Friday and now has a black eye. (which we haven't told them about..) If they complain, I'll just tell them that he has been 'getting in character', because probably most kids around that time looked slightly battered. There better be a good make-up artist around....

Lost Again

Thanks to good old iTunes, I've just been able to download the entire season 3 of Lost, which was annoyingly hijacked from my TV screen last year by those bastards at Sky. It looks damn good on my 24" iMac screen, and at £32 is pretty good value, especially if you are needing excuses not work.

Fnaaar !

This is good fun - link courtesy of my mate Tobes...

Torture

I've been very busy this week trying to finish an interactive DVD for one of my clients. The artwork, graphics, video and 3d stuff was all pretty much finished ages ago. The stage I am at now involves painstakingly examining and altering about 450 tiny text files, each with bizarre titles like MANPIMP07 and CONTUCD03. It is beginning to really do my head in. Fortunately the end is in sight and and I may be able to finish just in time to stop my brain from turning to complete mush. In a month or so, I'm going to have to edit each of these files again by translating them into the Azerbi language native to Azerbijan. I expect to be ready to commit suicide shortly afterwards.

Graffiti

The thing about graffiti here in the UK is that it is mostly of such pathetically poor quality. If the kids are talented enough to spray something cool on a wall in a sort of New York way, then I probably don't mind, but shit like this really pisses me off. For Christ's sake kids, do a bit of googling and research your artwork (and spelling) before you get started. And get some decent paints too.

Not Fair

The missus is swanning around in Capri this week, apparently working very hard but nonetheless I'm stuck here in Peckham. God I'm jealous.

If you're on a mac (which over half of you are according to my blog stats) then you can catch a glimpse of life in Capri with this QTVR three dimensional photograph thingy. And if you're using windoze then, download the quicktime plugin so that you don't feel left out.

And Whilst We're At It

And whilst we're at it, here's another classic from the archives... This one is of my missus pretending to be a bunny rabbit.

Cowboys

This week, whenever I have a few moments spare, I have been trying to sort through the 5000 or so photos on my computer. There seem to be loads of duplicates, and plenty that should just be chucked in the trash. Anyway, I came across this photo of my mate Derek, who is a recently retired chemistry schoolteacher, and felt I should share it.

Mews Party

Every year, all of us here in the Mews have a big party. This years event was great fun, there were no injuries, and we didn't have any trouble with the police. I mixed a rather lethal bucket of pimms (1 bottle pimms, 1 bottle vodka, 1 bottle lemonade) which was a great success, and everyone got very pissed. I am rather hungover today.

New iPods

Oh God, thats all I need, more beautiful gizmos to spend my non existent money on. And there will be a replacement out in 12 weeks probably. The iPod Touch is a masterpiece of design (again), click here to see a video explaning all it's wonderful features... Whatever happened to Radio Rentals ? Perhaps it's time to simply rent these things and just upgrade whenever something new comes along...