The theory is that once a month there’s an ‘open Mic’ band practice at the Soundworks Studio, Blackbird Leys, Oxford. An advance announcement is put
Category: Stuff
Sheep, motorbikes, cars and cameras
That title sounds like it should be an ITV2 reality show… It’s Saturday evening and we’re rocking it out large. And by ‘rocking it out
Not as serious as others?
In the cold light of morning I’m wondering if Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke MP, in making his widely reported comments about rape, has accidentally put
Impenetrable logic
Sometimes a thing comes along and we look at it and we say ‘WTF?’. And we look at it again and we say ‘WTF?’. Then
Things pile up
David Cameron is a twat. That statement relates to nothing in particular, apart from David Cameron’s natural twattishness, obv. Early Sunday evening and we’re doing
Counting theatrical dry seats
We’ve been watching the latest series of Dr Who – the latest series that some people have mistakenly called ‘Series six’. Some people who can’t
A life less contradictory
Sometimes being an ultra left-wing supporter with occasional right-wing inclinations isn’t as easy as that might sound. I know I’m shallow. I’m deep, but I’m
When is a twatish driver not a twat?
I don’t know either. And it’s probably best not to ask Andrew Jacques, the owner/driver of Luxury Land Liners Ltd. Probably best not to ask him
Want to go on a helicopter flight down the Grand Canyon?
Well, just sit back and relax and watch this:
Attention parents: there are some places you should not take your offspring
At the risk of appearing to be a raving child-hater (I’m not; nothing could be further from the truth. I love polite, well-brought-up, well-mannered children),
BT are back with a stunning return to form!
Look, I’ll spare you the detail, but in bullet point form: We experienced a year – twelve, long, fucking painful months – of absolute shit
The height of fashion, darling
My new t-shirt. Isn’t it lovely?
I left my heart in Fat Stan’s disco
Tomorrow morning we’re due to shake ourselves free from San Francisco and head eastwards. While in town we have been utter tourists. Open-topped bus trip
Catching the Rays in Monterey
Unexpectedly, we decided to settle in Monterey for longer than we had planned. I’m not altogether sure why. We just did. While we were in
A beach, a castle that isn’t and a strange man
After sleeping a big fat sleepy sleep of 12 hours uninterrupted sleep (that’s enough sleep references, Ed), I woke up full of beans and energy.
A little taste of Spain?
After Malibu we drove around the coast. Oxnard, Ventura and Santa Barbara. For me, the discovery of the trip so far was the gorgeous Santa
Malibu, Barbie?
Yesterday morning we temporarily escaped the clutches of LA and drove to the pier at Santa Monica. It was hot. We ambled up and down
Branches everywhere
I hear that back in the Motherland, the good people of Bristol are so incensed at being offered more consumer choice, through the planned arrival
Battered but not unbowed
It’s 08.15 local, or 15.15 BST. I’ve just crawled out of bed after 10 hours sleep; my body aches with with the kind of pain
It feels like teen spirit
That ‘end of weekend’ feeling sits heavily on my shoulders. Do you remember it? The ‘back to school’ thing that used to happen early Sunday
Steve Miller had it right
‘Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future‘. From the song ‘Fly Like An Eagle’, by the Steve Miller Band. We’re going out tonight.
It’s like good television, but with blood
I dislike medical dramas. I’m sorry, let me explain that. I mean I dislike medical soaps. Actually, I dislike any kind of soap – the
Picked a fine day to give up glue-sniffing
Here’s the kind of air accident that I’ve never seen outside of a film: ps. Don’t say anything about French drivers. Not a thing.
The frustration is going to kill someone
Most mornings I drive across country and pick up the A420 trunk road, where I make a right-turn (head west). If you’re not too familiar
A mini-excursion
Listeners to the podcast will know, from this week’s show, that we have decided not to have a formal itinerary on our forthcoming trip to the
Speed is of the essence
I know you want to hear how our broadband saga ended, with the transition to PlusNet, after the complete and utter farce of BT? Here’s
I haz broken The Bangles
I was playing around with CuBase and accidentally broke The Bangles classic karaoke song ‘Eternal Flame’. Click here to play it. [opens in a new
I want a girl’s night in!
Seriously, this sounds excellent!
I am a grammar nazi
I specialise in exposing the criminal use of apostrophes:
Is it art, or is it soft porn? It doesn’t matter!
In response to my email to yFrog asking them why they censored the Liz Taylor photograph (below), and my musing that perhaps yFrog felt it
Is it art, or is it soft porn?
There is, in today’s Daily Mail, a stunning nude photograph of the late Liz Taylor in her younger years. I downloaded the photo, uploaded it
London is a parasitic heaven. Discuss
Ah, London. But not the London of old. Not the ‘turn again Dick Whittington’ London. Not the London of the 50’s, 60’s or even the
Sometimes I just sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits
ITV 2 show, The Only Way is Essex. Vile. But I’m going to rise above the content of the show and look at the people
The working at home dilemma
Things I like about working at home: Not having to shower, shave or dress until I feel like it Able to work in PJs or
And with the weekend comes…
… Fug, fuzziness and a brain made of cotton-wool. I woke up this morning – Saturday – with a really sore bum. What the hell
Lastminute.com – an expensive game of chance
Last night I selected two return seats from London Heathrow (LHR) to Los Angeles (LAX), via the website lastminute.com. I’ve had an account with lastminute.com
Travelling Travails
We weren’t able to go to the South by South West music festival in Austin, Texas, because I wasn’t able to get time off from
Digital TV is shit
The date for The Digital Television Switchover is sweeping ever closer. September this year, in this region. Great. Or it would be if the fucking
Children should be kept out of harm’s way
Another in the series of posts held over from The Great Internetage Outage… One Sunday a few weekends ago, I attended an equestrian-type course. The
Scared the crap out of me!
Another in the series of posts held over from The Great Internetage Outage… Yesterday I found myself in an unfamiliar building and, coincidentally, desperate for
The Great Tennis Ball Secret…
Another in the series of posts held over from The Great Internetage Outage… I went in to town a couple of days ago, and bought
I’m with stupid. Unfortunately
What we need is a gigantic ejector seat. Then we could put all of the really stupid people in it, push the button and watch
Helloooooooooooooooo!
Yes indeed, I have finally found the time to sit down and write something. How are you? What’s new? Me? Oh, we’re back on broadband
Broadband? What Broadband? (III, the end?)
Late yesterday afternoon the BT Openreach engineer arrived to sort out our lack of broadband. He was a nice guy, but better than that, he
Broadband? What Broadband? (II)
After my last post on this subject, and due to me tweeting about the continued lack of broadband, the twitter user ‘@plusnet’ got in touch.
A weekend of tired
Another in the ‘this post was written some time ago, but has only just been posted because we don’t have broadband’ series. Tired. On Saturday