Some of my workmates got into the audience of the Frank Skinner Show last night which is showing this evening. How exciting! Minesh is the odd-looking indian bloke who's right under Frank when he's singing "Fun Town Frankie". No sign of Dan though because apparently he got moved towards the back, the reason being (according to Minesh) that his head was too big! Rude.

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Few of life's disappointments can match that of waking up and realising it's Monday morning. Even finding a cupboard in your overheated hotel room that says "minibar", only to find it empty is far less depressing I find. Sam (who I was sharing the room with and is a look-alike to Steve "And this one's REALLY dangerous" Irwin) and I would've done well with a couple of drinks. We woke up on Sunday (to seagulls with megaphones) so dehydrated due to the unbearable heat. Forget about licking any stamps, our mouths were paper bags...

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Without trying to be a schismatic, one of the highlights of the Alpha Weekend was definitely the rugby result over the All Blacks. I think those who saw it would agree the Jonny Wilkinson is a modern day legend and that Lomu is still a freak of nature. That 67th minute run down the left wing with him handing off two, well, fairly big chaps and getting another quite beefy bloke to bounce off him like a ping pong ball was quite impressive.

Alpha was great though. Met loads of the others on the course and even found this Scottish girl who'd done oriental studies at Oxford and spoke mandarin! She'd even stayed in Taipei on a road just off the one where I grew up. Freaky!
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See also: Alpha course, Eastbourne

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Really looking forward to the Rugby match versus the All Blacks on Saturday. We're going to deck them. Just to educate myself I found out what the Haka actually means in English today. Now that I know it's a load of nonsense it's hard to take it seriously! But apparently there is a proper explanation and history to it.

I'm going to watch the match with a bunch of Kiwis which will make victory oh so sweet. It's the Alpha weekend away down in Eastbourne and three of the people in the group come from New Zealand. In fact there are loads of them in church. Anyway, we're going to do Eastbourne and check out all the old people. I've been warned that because most people down there are over 75 they whack the heating in the hotel on full blast! Had better start packing a few t-shirts...

Tags: England, rugby, haka, All Blacks

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The moral of this story is don't be stupid!

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I can't tell you the things we get up to in the office when the boss is out... but I can show you!

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Imagine being married for 85 years! These guys don't have to. Only in Taiwan.

Tags: Taiwan

Despite the wet weather some friends and I went to Hampton Court yesterday for a cultural excursion. Was very impressed! The maze was quite easy actually although we may have just been lucky... or maybe I cheated beforehand and looked at a map. No, I didn't really but there is one here. The Longleat maze is quite a bit more challenging though...

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