The package flight
The Package Flight: WARNING! I am writing this from a private beach in Talum so expect plenty of errors! So close friends decided to spend a month in Mexico this august. I agreed to meet them for a couple of weeks. The flight options were limited. I hate transfers and British airways were showing 2 […]
Milk man – The Olympic legacy part 1
Milk man – The Olympic legacy part 1 I was having a Southbank lunch with one of my besties the other day when he told me that he had asked a mixed race person where they were from and they had given him one whole look. He didn’t understand it as he meant where do […]
The Bolt – Olympic Legacy part 2
The Bolt – Olympic Legacy part 2 The other night (Tuesday) I was walking home after a late supper. It was just before midnight and Anita Baker and I were contemplating some high notes on No More Tears. I knew she would reach them and I wouldn’t. Not even in my head. My one thing […]
Win a free divorce
.So remember I wrote back on this appalling site a few weeks back? It’s gotten worse. Yes they’re back and promoting their site hard. Now you don’t just have a discrete affair but they’ll pay for the consequent divorce when you get caught? That said I don’t want to deny those of you in dire […]
Jewel Bar part 2
Jewel Bar Part 2 . See Jewel Bar Part 1 here So our new semi friend Leonardo was about to leave when he realised that he had lost his phone. We looked on the table but it wasn’t there. I suggested that he asked the tequila soliciting chick he had been chatting to for ages. […]
Jewel Bar part 1
Jewel Bar Part 1 So last night I organised an event at Jewel Bar Covent Garden. I really should have known that it was going to be fraught with issues because; a) It’s in the West End on a Friday b) The woman was uber excited about Charlie from Kiss FM playing there. Who? The […]
The Recruitment Consultant
The recruitment consultant So I know I fucked up. I just didn’t think a decision I made over 4 years ago would have such far reaching repercussions. I better start at the beginning. There’s this recruitment consultant who I’ve never met and who sends me the odd job specification to look over before disappearing for […]
5 black guys and a hotel bar
So the other night I went out for a typical night out in Central London. Typical in many ways. It was raining, we caught a show at the cinema with a group of about 20 people and then 5 of us decided to go on for a drink. I would just like to say there […]
Cabbie diaries part 5
Cabbie Diaries part 5 – the final part So as I was finishing a delicious bath I see that my phone is ringing. It’s him, Cabbie. I pick up and he starts his ranting. Why wasn’t I answering his texts? I told him I didn’t want to text or talk to him as there was […]
15 Things I learned on the authors’ bootcamp
Air conditioning is one of the things you are given free despite not wanting it. Take layers. I wrote all weekend Writers have groupies who think that having written a book is a huge achievement no matter that it’s a book about making money from writing a book. Hmmmm Internet marketers have more groupies who […]