Last night, I wandered along to the South Bank to see what was being touted as a fairly major PR stunt for the forthcoming Watchmen movie. The event was billed as: “Dr Manhattan, the blue skinned, super-powered being beloved of all Watchmen fans, will rise above the murky depths of the Thames ...

Thanks to an invite from the chaps (and chapesses) over at the Londonist, I found myself lurking around the entrance to The Barbican Centre this morning - waiting for a chance to have a look at the first significant redevelopment in the Barbican estate since it was built. Frobisher Crescent is a odd...

Childhood memories of Saturday mornings flooded back as I was told that the Japanese puppet show, Starfleet is to be released on DVD at last. Dances a little happy dance OK, it wasn’t the best of the puppet genre, but I liked it and it does have a small but hard-core group of fans. Not to ment...

This morning I, as is my wont, chose to take the lift down from the 5th floor to leave the building. As I got in and instinctively reached for the G button, my nose was assailed by a most vile stench. Alas, my instinct had resulted in button pressing and before I could escape the door was closing. O...

Following a load of publicity after a recent BBC series of country walks along disused railways, there will be two opportunities to walk the Monsal Trail in the Peak District - and go though the normally closed tunnels which the trail currently has to avoid. The walks, to be operated on 11th April a...

As practically everyone is going to be uploading Snow-Photosâ„¢ today, I thought I’d join in. I had intended to get up very early and try to get good photos, but a sore shoulder kept me up most of the night - and hence I overslept this morning - damn. Here are a few from the flat though. (PS -...

The Times newspaper is reporting that some 36,000 Gurkha soldiers and their families will be allowed to settle in the UK - after the government lost a legal fight over settlement rights. Personally, I think this is a fantastic decision as people who are willing to serve in the British army have earn...

Time to flex your typing fingers as there is a fairly urgent need to contact your MP today. It seems that the government has been caught in the act of “burying bad news” and chose the day that the media (and everyone else) would be talking about the Heathrow runway expansion to slip thro...

Earlier today, a quite remarkable milestone was passed as the 100,000th person looked at my Flickr collection of photos of an “Abandoned London” taken on Christmas morning - which is quite staggering. When I got up on Christmas morning, I really had no idea if the photo session would wor...

Today was the completion of a DLR extension project which had taken the light railway down towards City Airport - and after a short hiatus for tunneling work - under the River Thames to Woolwich town centre. I had planned to be particularly geekish and catch the very first train to Woolwich at about...