This weekend I helped out at an archaeological dig and found a button that possibly came from a military uniform.

I’ve just got back working at my employer’s offices in Austin, Texas. I didn’t do much siteseeing this time as I’d seen most of the city last time. Instead, I thought I’d write up brief reviews of some of the restaurants I ate in.

Today I purchased a PC game, The Settlers: Heritage of Kings. I've played all of the previous Settlers games so I was interested to see what this version looked like.

I’ve just received my copy of the second season of My Name Is Earl from Amazon. If you haven’t been watching this program on Channel 4 you’ve really missed out.

For my birthday my mum and step-father took me out to dinner at Azzurro, an Italian restaurant in Southend-on-Sea that we’ve enjoyed before. Click here to read my review...

To mark my birthday a group of friends and I went out to dinner in Milton Keynes. I wanted to eat somewhere that we hadn't been to before. I selected the Royal Lido Chinese restaurant on Midsummer Boulevard. We had an excellent time, but click here to read my full review.

Today I finished Uncharted: Drake's Fortune having started the game on Christmas Eve. It’s the second game that I have completed on my PS3; the first was Resistance: Fall of Man.