Colonel Irrelevant

So Britain is ‘gripped’ by swine flu. So doI travel back in August or do I hide like a Gruffalo to avoid infection, therefore missing the football, friends and family?

Is it better for cattle to be reared wild and have 4 years of life before dying in a bullring or die after 2 years of fairly hit and miss life depending where they are raised?

At least I am on the bus to the airport to get the airbus to Barcelona to get a train to Tarragona. So far so good and less scary than expected but there is still time ….

At home, trailers are carefully matched to the feature. In Spain it would appear things are different. Nudity and sex abounded before Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince which made for an interesting few minutes.

It isn’t often in my life that I have considered 30 celsius as warm and 27 as pleasantly cool. But I do now. And the cinema is underground in a long thin room with no drop in the seat height from row to row. It’s differerent but fun

Looking over the skyline counting clouds. Non zero nil nada nul zip diddly squat.

Is there anything more scary than right wing religious folk with an apocalyptic view? Because if there is I don’t want to meet them!

There is something good about looking at a building and thinking ‘blimey’ or something similar. There is something depressing about looking at a building and wanting to rip your eyeballs out. So why can’t architects use this as a test and build great stuff and scrap he crap? It would make the world a better [...]

I followed the guardian q&a session today on climate change, energy and stuff. Very interesting for the most part – especially the questions. The posting of questions through tinternet made me wonder how much electricity was needed to allow the debate to happen. And I wonder if the true complexities of climate and society are [...]

Madrid is a good night out. Tapas and booze interspersed with chocolate and churros is great. The gay rights march made for a colourful crowd but the boy with breasts was a little too much.