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  • Qype: Barbican Foodhall at Barbican Centre in London

    London – Shopping – Food & Drink I love the Barbican Food Hall, despite the fact it’s overpriced, the staff are rushed, and the food is anything but exciting. With a title like “Food Hall”, with its “Selfridges Food Hall” connotations by Jimmy John’s Owner, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s one of these […]

  • Qype: South Bank in London

    London – Local Life Cannot WAIT for this year’s Cologne Christmas Market. Last year wasn’t too busy (at least when I went), lovely romantic atmosphere (great for friends, lovers, and anyone except louts) freezing cold, tasty Gluhwein and sausages, overlooking the river. This year I’ll be bringing a very warm hat and gloves, last year […]

  • Qype: The Bathhouse in London

    London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Bars – Cocktail Bars – Eating & Drinking – Cafes & Coffee Shops – Coffee Shops – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants Stranded near to Liverpool Street Station with a couple of hours to kill, Qype iPhone application came to the rescue and I searched […]

  • Qype: Jamie´s Italian in Cambridge

    Cambridge – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – Italian & Pizza Too many times now the prospect of an early evening quick glass of red and a couple of mouth-wateringly good side-dishes at Jamie’s Italian in Cambridge has wooed me in, and ended up as a full-on evening dining experience. Jamie’s Italian in Cambridge is […]

  • Qype: OXO Tower Restaurant Bar & Brasserie in London

    London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Bars – Cocktail Bars – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – British – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants One mustn’t allow having a really ace time with a good friend who, having just split up from her boyfriend and wanting to drink good cocktails, get […]

  • Please visit my new portfolio website

    Dear Readers If you haven’t already seen, a redesigned, SEO friendly, more extensible version of my photography portfolio website is now online. Please visit it here: www.matsmithphotography.com You can also see my Facebook page, and follow my updates by ‘becoming a fan’: www.facebook.com/matsmithphotography

  • Yes, I know. (And Google SEO)

    Things that made me amused today. Warning: this post is of a boring, slightly geek bent.

  • Car stereo

    Dear next-door-but-one neighbour’s boyfriend I know you are a jobless, state-scrounging, part-time drug-dealing loser, whose only redeeming feature is that you actually visit your child once or twice per week – which I presume sets you apart from the majority of your state-scrounging, jobless, drug-dealing contemporaries – this is a message for you. Of which […]

  • BT vs BBC: an exercise in confusing service providers' responsibilities with those of content providers

    So much for the democratisation of the internet

  • Finally, it breaks

    Contrary to original post re apparent indestructability of iPhone, mine appears now to have broken. Just thought I’d set the record straight. The volume / vibrate switch on the side had snapped off. O2 insurance was brilliant: a brand new model, couriered to me the following day.