Restaurant review: The Rose Revived, Newbridge, Witney, OX29 7QD The in-laws came down from Worcestershire today, so we toddled down to the Rose Revived for
Month: August 2010
A weekend planned – and unplanned
Yesterday, while I was driving back to the yard from Highclere Horse Trials, I had one of those ‘I’m going to fall asleep any minute
It’s easy from the ground
Eventing is one of those sports that just looks easy. But not only is there more to it than one might think, there is a
Ah, now I understand why the Daily Mail hates the BBC
I didn’t realise that Daily Mail staff had to pay a massive premium on their television licence fee just, presumably, for being Daily Mail employees:
Sending signals
Journalists, WTF? I know the house style of the The Sun is best summed up as ‘aim for the worst of all that is bad
A day trip
Today I went to London. Just to see if it was real. I took a HUGE bag of Sandwich Spread sandwiches. Unfortunately the sandwiches were
Losing it…
‘Children will always be children’, the television advert for the French dairy product said a few minutes ago. Do we need to write in, pointing
Wasted on the young?
Thanks (entirely, I am sure) to the outside-but-internal assistance of Daniel, our broadband problems seem to have gone away. If it wasn’t for his help,
Your Sunday night Information Bulletin is here!
Random stuff appearing in random order… First (I nearly wrote ‘Fist’ there, but that’s a whole different story) do me a favour? Can you please
Ladies and Gentlemen!
We are, this evening, going to bring you an amazing magical illusion. I shall give you *the answer* to a riddle and, later, I shall
Getting fucked by BT Broadband
It seems that we have somehow subscribed to BTs reduced hours tariff. Our broadband came back online at 9.22 this morning. And took itself offline
Fucking BT Broadband
Warning! There may possibly be a stray sweary turn of phrase hereabouts So BT. What a complete and utter bunch of cunts. We have no
What’s the difference between smoking and smoking?
Professor Steve Field is the chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners. So one would imagine that Professor Field knows what he’s on about,
Special guest…
We cover so much ground and so many topics in this week’s podcast that, frankly, I couldn’t list them all for the website. That’s because
Good old BT (the latest update)
So, to recap, we have been experiencing on-going problems with our BT Vision box. Daily rebooting, to make the thing work; dropped menus; dropped (paid
Good old BT (this morning’s version)
I was struggling to download a package that I have to edit – struggling, because my download speed was around the same levels as last
Good old BT
I haven’t really chronicled my current battle with BT yet. I’ll just say that my first phone call with BT’s overseas call centre actually had
Sunday morning in the Big Brother house
Sophie has just gone back to bed with a cup of tea. She’s now reading. Bren is downstairs. He has just backed up many websites