I don’t usually post pictures of my meals on social media, but here’s the obligatory photo of the bowl of ramen that I ate in Ippudo on Saturday afternoon:
Ippudo is a Japanese chain ramen restaurant. They have multiple branches located in various parts of central London, and if I feel like eating ramen when I’m in town I usually go to the restaurant in Central St. Giles near to Tottenham Court Road Tube station.
The ramen was a bit pricey but was tasty and filling.
For the last seven days I’ve been on early shifts, which, for me, means having to wake up somewhere between 3:30am and 4am each morning. Due to a severe lack of sleep it’s been a pretty exhausting week, but now that I’ve got a few days off I’m going to attempt clear at least some of the sleep debt I’ve accrued by sleeping in as late as possible tomorrow morning. Very late indeed.
As I type this, it’s blowing a gale and bucketing it down with rain here in south west London, but, in typically British fashion the forecast for tomorrow and for the rest of the weekend doesn’t look too bad. If the weather holds up I just might pop into town on Saturday as there’s a few things I’d like to pick up – one of which is Yena’s new album and another is a pair of Levis flare jeans. No, really! They’re back in fashion, allegedly.
As for the rest of my three-day weekend off, I’m gonna try and catch up on some reading and take things easy in preparation for another bunch of early shifts, which start on Monday.
I just hope I’ll be able to get more sleep next week than I managed during the week just gone.
Although I couldn’t exactly tell you why, I’m absolutely fascinated with liminal spaces. So I was very happy to learn earlier this week that the final chapter of Dreamcore, which is my favourite liminal space video game by far, is now in development.
I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. But the final chapter, "Dead Mall" is already in development pic.twitter.com/E0TbiQVGQW
— Dreamcore (@DreamcoreGame) March 4, 2026
It goes without saying that I’m super excited about playing this ‘Dead Mall” level even though I’ll feel just a little bit sad that there’ll be no more new chapters of this incredible game to look forward to.
After reading her fascinating and deeply researched book about the history of Area 51, I was absolutely planning on getting this when it first came out in hardback, however, I’ve only just gotten around to picking up a paparback copy.
Hi, Barry here. Welcome to the latest iteration of my personal website and blog where I will primarily be writing about myself, my daily life and anything else that interests me.
I’ll be posting updates here as and when I feel like it, which means that on occasion there might be multiple posts in a single day and other times there may not be any new content for days or even weeks at a time.
Either way, it feels good to have a blog again.
So, let’s begin then, shall we?