Stuffed, eventually
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
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
A judge says… (some dubious things)
Whilst passing sentence on Sean Goodfellow and Murray McAllan, both found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, temporary judge Kenneth McIver said, ‘As in
Video (from the Latin: ‘I see’)
I’m desperately trying to keep this away from a Bristol-related rant. And also I’m going to work hard to keep this away from an ‘Underage
Blogging bullets
17th March, 2004 My first blog post Over here I’m re-reading it all Sad git
Ha-ha, fooled you!
Yesterday Soph and I drove in to London, parked the car at Queensway and caught the tube to Mile End where we met Ash for
A very Spanish show
This week’s digital broadcast (or podcast, if you prefer) is out and bouncing around every corner of the interwebs. It’s a very Spanish affair –
Sometimes I actually *like* winding people up
Dear Aurora Berg, I feel eminently qualified to assist your company in a diverse range of operational solutions, but I feel that I could add
So, this eventing lark…
Ho hum. The commentary starts before we even left the yard because Tom, evidently, was having one those days. Tom, who normally marches up the
Gone phishing
So the phishers/scammers are at it again and this time they’re almost but not quite clever. An email screeched in to the podcast’s gmail account,
Ups, downs, lefts, rights and straight-aheads
Edited: Saturday times in This Saturday Tom and I are competing again. If you’re in the Ascott-under-Wychwood/Burford/Charlbury area, the British Eventing One-Day-Event is free to
And the world gets more screwed up…
According to this headline in The Daily Mail, a senior circuit judge has been ‘forced to resign after a passionate affair with a male prostitute’.
Two days in 50 minutes
I’m watching ‘My Super Sweet 16UK’ on Viva. I am gobsmacked. Spoilt little bitches like this actually exist in this country? They should be held
Thanks for the feedback!
I’d like to thank my mother for not practising birth control, and my agent, and my publicist… Thank you for the comments on the vids,
Driven to distraction 3
The journey concludes with part 3 of 3. Obviously… Part three of my drive from home to the stables, accompanied – on this leg –
Driven to distraction 2
The journey continues with part 2 of 3… Music by Norwegian Recycling, possibly the greatest mashup artist in the world.
Driven to distraction
Ages – months – ago, I said that if I could find a way to *safely* mount my video camera in the car, I’d give
People should not be allowed to drive!
We were in Witney’s Tesco Express, just a few moments ago, buying chocolate and other *cough* essential provisions. The woman in front of us was
And here is the news…
(from the ‘Oh My God’ department of common sense) Professor Allyson Pollock, director of Edinburgh University’s Centre for International Public Health Policy has produced a
Getting ready for the weekend
Personal mobile phone fully charged? Check! Podcast mobile phone fully charged? Check! Videocamera batteries fully charged? Check! Digitial still cameras (2) batteries fully charged? Check!
Happy Birthday!
8am. It is Soph’s birthday today. Thirty-one. 31. We’re sitting on the couch, Soph’s opening her cards and presents and I’m enjoying watching her facial
Stream of unconsciousness…
This is a test piece of writing… It’s been said many times before, that the most intimidating thing, for a writer, is a blank page.
A Super-hero meets a fan
(a storyboard by Vin…)
People Problems
I have a friend, let’s call her Amanda Nicol, who, in 2003, wrote a highly insightful and devastatingly emotional novel about a young guy and
Apple; treating users like they just don’t matter
Full title: How Apple could take a leaf out of Microsoft’s book and enhance the user experience… My laptop is downloading the latest iTunes update
Horses, illnesses, bikes, writing, music
… and the bitter taste of something… bitter-tasting… Horses: So, that scoundrel Tom. Tsk. Tom is nothing but a worry to his ‘dad’. He spends
Big Brother, season 11
Updated 16th July 2010, edit identified below The (allegedly) final series of Big Brother is upon us and do you know what? It’s nowhere near
Whistling like a boiling kettle
I am not well. No! Please, you have to at least try to keep that massive outpouring of grief and sympathy in check. It’s just
The birds and the bees. And the cats
Since we moved in to this house, almost two years ago, we have had a running battle with every cat in the parish. The house,
Saturday’s One Day Event
By the time Tom and I got to do our stuff the photographer had all but given up and gone home. Well, we were the
Fuel for Thought
I am in pain. Not the deep, dark, tortured pain that we all literary geniuses suffer. This is a more intense, physical kind of pain.
Leading from the rear
We were working in for the dressage phase of the Ascott-under-Wychwood Horse Trials when I heard Tom’s near-hind shoe flapping. Fortunately the farrier on call
Testing times
Tom’s times for the Ascott-under-Wychwood British Eventing Horse Trials are: 15.16: Dressage 17.43: Show-jumping 18.31: Cross-country If he Show-jumps like he did on Sunday, we’ll