David Coats Blog

As I may not post again in 2006, (brag)cos i’ll be snowboarding baby yeah!!(/brag) I thought I would take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year and (briefly) carry out my annual reflection of the year gone by.
So not really the happiest of years for me 2006. In fact pretty shitty in places! […]

Today I have Itchy Feet.
My favourite TV programme EVER has been running for the last two weeks on BBC2 - This Life. It kind of shaped my young teenhood - and seems to be having the same effect on me in young adulthood. This Life truly was the best show of the 90’s - and […]

Autumn has finally arrived in Northern Europe. Switzerland was grey, windy and rainy all weekend. However, the journey back from Bern to Geneva Airport was beautiful. So many fantastic colours across the sparsly populated, densly forested land. The Train took me through the Bernese Oberland to Geneva via Fribourg and Romont, a string of snow […]

I think I’ve had myself and world around me transported 30 degrees north! Its so cold! It didn’t matter how fast I cycled on the way home - I was still shivering! What with the light fading at 4 it really feels like we’re in Scandinavia. I hate winter. I’m going to need a serious […]

I am still growing it - but I have had it cut (I am one big oxymoron!) - and pretty short too. I’m really happy with it - its probably one of my better hair cuts! The fluffy sides have gone but the top still has plenty of hair on it in a funky messed […]