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
Year: 2011
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
Broadband? What broadband?
I left this comment on Plusnet’s website a few minutes ago: I have a complaint – not about Plusnet as such, but about Plusnet’s supplier.
I’m feeling cocky now
It has been four weeks since broadband last worked in the house. I’m coping, just about; the shakes and other withdrawal symptoms have almost gone.
Still no broadband
We are informed that PlusNet will start giving us broadband on Monday. Fingers are crossed. Which makes doing the washing up very difficult, obv.
This one isn’t about BT
This week, the last seven days ending tonight, Friday 25th February 2011, has been a week of weird and a week of same; I’m not
Not drowning, waving
We continue to be without broadband, even though – technically – we have been switched over to PlusNet from BT. But our continued lack of
Direct Debit Instruction Cancelled: Virgin Media
Account Number: 234927701 KMM61522320I15977L0KM Dear Mr Steve Atkinson (Head of Payment Processing, Virgin Media Payments Ltd), Thank you for your email of 15th February in
It’s as if they don’t want the business
Our broadband issues continue to hurtle from crisis to crisis like a 21st Century soap opera. Yesterday was supposed to be our switchover day –
Sometimes having knowledge is not good
The blockbuster film ‘The King’s Speech’ contains two massive continuity errors, and only really sad geeky people would notice them. That would include me. Within
No sex please, we’re stupid
The High Court in London had before it a peculiar case, last week. Mr Justice Mostyn, on hearing the petition brought by a local authority,
Freewheeling
Policy Officer for CTC (formerly: Cyclists’ Touring Club) and one of our favourite nutters, Chris Peck has popped on to our radar again. Chris last
One for the spotters
This afternoon, at about 15.35 zulu, I saw this aircraft land at EGVN: It is an A320-212, registration mark JY-AYI, operated by the Jordan-based Royal
Being a bit of a tart
I wrote a proper television review of the BBC drama ‘Hattie’ for the satirical website ‘Shouting at Cows’. It was an odd piece to publish
A different kind of breaking up
Coming to the realisation that any long-standing relationship has withered to the point it has become harmful to one’s health is, frankly, painful. Motivating oneself
Sometimes I despair. Other times I despair
Those who know me *really* well will know I have several problems with the British police. All of them. I have voiced many disparaging comments
Wut? No, really. Wut?
I took my car to the garage for a new pair of front tyres. ‘That’ll be £145’, said the charming mechanic. ‘Fair enough’, says I.
That time of the year…
I’m sorry that I’ve been ignoring you lately. It hasn’t been anything personal. Just, you know, been stupidly busy. I could tell you how many
On letting go
This isn’t easy to write. For no other reason than my life is not the same as it was a couple of years ago, I
Nice arrers!
I have been doing further thinking on my quest to find new ‘instant hit’ TV shows. Following on from last week’s ‘Antique Roadshow Rewind‘, this
Saturday night’s alright for sleeping
If, a few short hours ago, you had arrived on the doorstep unannounced, you would have caught me watching Total Wipeout. And laughing. This behaviour
Today’s random googles include…
I’ll just do this very quickly, because we have to go shopping. My favouriteist google searches of the day are (in chronological order): Dogging Horse
Cunning idea for a new TV show
As you may have guessed, I have a cunning idea for a new TV show. You’ve probably heard of, if not seen, BBC1’s long-running Antiques
Meanwhile, a stupid British person speaks
The terrible tragedy of the murder of Bristol resident Jo Yeates seems to be on the verge of being turned in to something far more
Click click click. Not click woosh.
This happened a few days before Christmas Day I flipped on the shower, fetched my towel, jumped under the water and jumped straight back out
Wise words for the stupid
Once again I find myself repeating what is probably going to become my mantra for 2011: ‘Context is everything’. The late Kurt Vonnegut wrote some
Spielberg. Colin, not Steven. Again
I’ve been playing with the video clips we shot yesterday; rearranging the timeline, inserting a couple of bits, removing some bobs. When I was done