Ad rem...

Awww... hang all snively apologies! Yes - yes... call me irresponsible, shower me with your titters and tut-tuts and dismiss me to the flames of Blogger-Hell, but let me assure YOU - faithful Reader that the riverman~~~ is back with a vengeance... armed and not a little dangerous... rigged-out with a revitalised PC medicated with all manner of antivirus protections and, yes, pin-pricking-prepared to wreak havoc on the web yet again.

So away with anymore delay... let's dive into the update:

This is the riverman~~~'s new office...

...and therefore the place you will most likely find the riverman~~~ nowadays. Yes, it is beside a very big wharf, and yes, it is all very new and clean and tall and glassy and yes, it reflects the sky and its windows open into spectacular views of more windows that open into sterile grey towers where, yes, rows and rows of oppressed bankers huddle into their grey suits and stare into flickering screens where neon figures crawl up and down and from side to side, and yes, they forget the sunshine on grassy parks outside, the shimmer on the Thames and the yes, even the weekend jazz band that blares out a little summer into the air and drums a little heartbeat into the concrete...

But YES, rest assured though: the riverman~~~ stays the riverman~~~, and no ship-closing-deadline, two-week-long-training-programme or raspy throat from late night cafeteria pasta will divert me from the little things that make me grin... the things I hope you take time to grin about too!

Here are just a few examples:

The pub just 500 metres away from my desk... (yes, I measured!)... You simply KNOW you HAVE to go in!

Sexy Madame Moggy who sashays over to wish me good morning before I leave for work...

See, even strawberries have a sense of humour... I simply have to decide to notice...

It's a kind of magic that transforms greasy potato chips into light sabres...

And if all else fails, and the thought of yet another weekend in the office buried under paper and studying for an exam brings me down, I simply remember that I still have wonderful friends to spend my Friday evening with, drinking up the bar and realising how happy I am to be alive...


There now, becha you're smiling! Now, go get back to work! See you next week! Yes... yes... I promise!

(Oh, and by the way, I finally saw Harry Potter 5 last week... and in commemoration of that over-postponed and long awaited pleasure, I have embedded two very irreverent homages to the films for you to enjoy... so do!)

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