Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Holy Moly, the weekly show biz gossip email, appears to have changed their style. They normally put across a “we don’t care, no one can touch us” attitude - specialising on being consciously cutting - but Friday saw a brief update from them
In a mailshot sent today entitled “Like a caveman hollowing out a brontosaurus” […]

Anders & Christina, friends from Stockholm dropped over a couple of weekend ago. It was lovely to see them but one strange thing arose from the conversations was that the convention of telling time in England and Sweden are remarkably/alarmingly different.
Swedish say Half nine
To English ears: 9:30
To Swedish ears: 8:30
The Swedes mean half nine as […]

Alexander and Swetlana were showing me around Berlin at night about three weeks ago. One of the things they pointed out was we@Berlin, a kiosk which let you take photos of yourself/friends and email them for free.
Having just received the email with attached photos today - you can understand why it might be free. How […]

Diesel £1/litre

Originally uploaded by Simon.

I took this photo before going to Berlin, over a week ago - before the flooding in New Orleans and the subsequent raising of prices of fuel around the UK.
Sally, told me that she saw unleaded selling for £1.02/litre last week, but they […]

Prick Bike

Originally uploaded by Simon.

I was walking along the street in Berlin (Staying with my good friends Alexander and Swetlana), saw this bike and had to take a snap.

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We’re getting our Fiat 500 back on the road. It’s been sitting on our drive for the last 3-4 years, us having originally bought it in Sicily. Driving a car with a 500cc engine, that is best used for small journeys, was a real adventure, one I may go into another time.
The original number plates […]

We’ve cracked. We’ve given in to the inevitable desire for a bouncy castle at a moving house party for our daughter.
Would you Adam and Eve it (believe it - for non-UK readers), there is a British Inflatable Hirers Association, which I’m sure is abbreviated to BIHA in trade circles.
Dipping my toe into this new world, […]

This car looks fantasic. It’s based on a Volga, long time well-known Russian car maker, but I’m not sure if it’s a one-off, commissioned piece, but they call it the Volga V12 Coupe.
It has the beauty of the Jaguar Mark II about it, but its look has been multiplied on the meanness scale - as […]

Sugar Message

Originally uploaded by Simon.

Flying into Stockholm on Sunday night, the sugar on the plane caught my eye.
The message?
As sugar disolves,
it spreads happiness
Only in the short term I suspect.

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Is it right to find this funny?

Face value - yes. But sudden illness is never funny.

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