I have to admit I’m not a big fan of public transport and bit of a critic when it comes to their services but felt the urge to compare my experiences between London Transport and Vancouver’s Translink services. First, to get things into perspective following are some statistics on both cities which indicates London has [...]

I was looking at some supermarket price comparisons between the UK and Canada this lunch time.  Prices taken from the Tesco and Market Place IGA websites. Product: Corn Flakes Size: 750g Price UK: 2.00 Price Canada: $2.98 Commentary: This product is cheaper in Canada.  Equivalent to 1.74 in the UK. Product: Pepsi (bottle) Size: 2 [...]

The Spanish authorities have completed their investigation on the sudden death of Stephen Gately last year.  A judge has confirmed that he died of natural causes, a pulmonary oedema, a accumulation of fluid on the lungs.  Source BBC. This is unlikely to be the end of the Stephen Gately story though.  Gave It All Away [...]

Just watching the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC tonight just makes me realize how much the Republican’s are still in charge in America despite them being out of office for some time. Erroll Southers, who was completely qualified to take over running the Transport Security Administration, had his nomination supported by virtually everyone.  However, ultra-plonker [...]

Happy New Year to everyone who reads our blog!!  We wish you a great 2010.

May contain spoilers for those who haven’t read this yet! As you can tell from this blog entry I am a little bit behind reading my comics!  Every now and again a comic comes along which is truly memorable and that is this 4 part series Silver Surfer Requiem. This comic was released to coincide [...]

I got this Christmas Pudding from Market Place, for level of posh-ness I would class this store somewhere between Tesco and Waitrose. The pudding I bought was by a company called Max’s Donuts which don’t have much of a website!  If had made this Christmas Pudding I would have want to remain anonymous! When opening [...]

I was quite disturbed by an article on Stephen Gately written by Jan Moir who is a poor excuse for a journalist for a newspaper in the UK called the Daily Mail.  This newspaper is known for ultra-conservative drivel. I don’t want to link to the article or the newspaper from this blog since they [...]

I was absolutely stunned today when I was just reading my favorite Dr Who blog that Stephen Gately had died.  I couldn’t believe it at first especially following the shock death of Filip Nikolic as well. Reading through much of the new articles today it is not understood why he died just that his husband [...]

Adverts for drugs is probably by far the most annoying slots on American TV for me. In Europe we are just used to seeing medication you don’t need prescriptions for being advertised such as headache pills, cough syrup etc.  In the US you see these adverts too but I think that is the line of [...]

I haven’t watched much Canadian TV but have been back checking out the main news channels from the US and quite frankly I am getting a bit fed up of them all. MSNBC Being of liberal persuasion I agree more with the views held on this station.  Being at work during the day I only [...]

18th August was the 12th anniversary of Don and I meeting for the first time Well, we actually met over 12 years ago on the internet in May of that year. On Wednesday night we went out for a meal and decided to go Indian. The company was wonderdful but the food, well, you can [...]

In desperation to cut down my journey time I thought I would try out the new Canada Line that launched on Monday 17th August. I was hoping to use it Monday but launch day was free and there was over 2 hour waiting time to get into some stations, crazy!! I decided to take the [...]

Here is my quick review of Croissant in Vancouver. Before I get into it Vancouver is generally not known for its great bakery’s especially French, nothing can compare to Pauls and Le Pain Quotidien that I used to buy at London’s St Pancras Station. I am just reviewing the places I have access to, within [...]

Today we went to the annual event in Vancouver called Taste of the City and here is a quick review of it. Basically the event was about promoting restaurants in the city by them having a stand selling samples of what they can produce. I have to admit I did feel like crap today because [...]

Consider this a short musical interlude in my blog.  I’ve been enjoying the single Too Many Man by Wiley and Skepta on the record label Boy Better Know, one of the catchy songs you feel yourself repeating.  However, today I learnt there is a take off of this single by actor/comedian/writer Jason Lewis called “Not [...]

I don’t think I will ever forget this day myself, the day that there were suicide bomb attacks in London by 4 British Muslim’s. Today they unveiled a memorial to those who lost their lives during the attack, see BBC article. I was working at University College London at the time re-vamping their website.  There [...]

Well again I haven’t blogged much lately, this happens every now and again with me doesn’t it. Today was a first for us in Vancouver as we went to see our first live theater performance, Alter Boyz, here and I thought I would give it a quick review. Its about a “boy band”, formerly Alter [...]

Fox TV broadcast a new sci-fi pilot this past Friday night called Virtuality and this is my quick review. Basically the premise is a long haul space mission could not be paid for by the Government therefore it was sponsored by a TV network in exchange for it to be turned into a reality show…something [...]

Thought I would just follow up on my post the other day about Eurovision and the possibility of Russian authorities causing trouble for activists who wanted to highlight the countries poor human rights records towards gay people. Behind the well orchestrated Eurovision event that the general public saw on TV was the evil of the [...]

This is my review of the new Star Trek movie, like hundreds of other people sharing their comments over the internet through twitter, forum’s and their blogs I thought I would do the same too. It certainly did have a different look and feel compared to most other Star Trek’s, the graphics, camera movements, usage [...]

dinehere.ca seems to be the place for getting reviews on Vancouver restaurants so I have signed up and started placing my thoughts on there too.  Go to my profile to see my reviews. The restaurants I like the most so far is one in our neighborhood which is called Loks, quite expensive but good Chinese [...]

Quite befuddled why people would want to buy a McDonalds in order to benefit Children’s Charities. McHappy is May 6th here in Canada in which McDonalds will donate just $1 for every Big Mac, Happy Meal or McMuffin (and maybe other disgusting so-called food items) that are sold. I don’t think McDonalds marketing machine goes [...]