Anderson Cooper: Michael Jackson’s hair to be turned into diamonds
Links posted 28.07.09 I suppose that's one way of paying back the massive debt he must be in.
Links posted 28.07.09The future of local journalism
Blog posted 27.07.09 If local print journalism has any kind of future whatsoever, it most likely will be a bit like this magazine, which we picked up during our jaunt across the US border the other week.
Over the borderline
Blog posted 21.07.09 As you may know, I come from a country that essentially consists of a damp island in the north-east Atlantic. In my former home, it was pretty easy to tell you'd left...
828km
Blog posted 09.07.09 That's the distance between London and Aberdeen. It's also the distance we drove on Canada Day weekend from Mississauga, ON, to Tobermory, then to Bracebridge via Collingwood and then back to Mississauga via Toronto.
Sauces and sunshine
Blog posted 24.06.09 What is the difference between these two bottles of HP sauce?
Canada – where bank charges are usual
Articles posted 23.06.09The Guardian: Bank charges are the norm in Canada, but at least you get a personal service in return. Would you get similar in the UK?
Clothes and chickens: how to get in trouble in Toronto
Blog posted 18.06.09 Welcome to Toronto. You can marry who you want, talk on the cellphone while driving and wear seal fur. But there are some things that you just can't do, or at least couldn't until a few years ago.
Where the wild things are
Blog posted 10.06.09 Let me introduce you to the raccoon, a creature unknown in the UK but very much present in Canada.
How I learned to stop worrying and not dislike Mississauga
Blog posted 03.06.09 A small confession – I haven't technically moved to Toronto. I'm about 25 miles southwest of Toronto, in a city called Mississauga, part of the Greater Toronto Area. And for somebody who has just landed from England in the past week, it may as well be Neptune.