Tap

Tap

Just the other day, I was surprised at the question being asked by a rather serious (and generally lacking in joviality) man that I know.  He asked what was the worst experience that had happened to me in recent memory.  I can only guess that 

The Wigmore

The Wigmore

This is the first time I have had to get past a bouncer to enter a pub.  Just to be clear, it wasn’t because of my dress or lack thereof.  Neither was this was not a pub/club hybrid.  It was a proper boozer. Being subject 

Barrafina

Barrafina

At a recent business event, I discovered that working nomenclature has moved on somewhat from what I am used to.  Instead of “unpacking” or “deconstructing” a complicated sounding but otherwise fairly ordinary word (no doubt in the belief that it makes the speaker more sophisticated), 

Rambla

Rambla

The only thing worse than eating crap food is eating overpriced crap food.  Wanting to spare the blushes of a certain chain of restaurant that epitomises said axiom, let’s just say that anywhere I can think of would be better than that place.  This may 

Flat Iron

Flat Iron

Sometimes I get that awful sinking feeling.  It feel almost like a preternatural suspicion that something is about to go wrong.  Some examples from my life could be one of those times when I realised that I should have maybe taken the restroom break about