Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Today I very nearly spent £29 on a Nook eReader. £29 on an eReader? That’s ridiculous – ridiculously low! When I bought my first (and last) eReader, the Sony PRS300 pictured left I paid £170. £170 on an eReader? That’s the price you pay for being an early adopter. In the few years since I bought the Sony …
Looking on the BBC website this morning I saw something that looked pretty familiar. I knew that I had seen this image of the opening of the George W. Bush Library, or something very similar, recently. And then I remembered, it was the opening of the Francis J. Underwood Library on Netflix’s House of Cards. I’d …
For some reason Reading doesn’t seem to attract many big name bands to play in the town, probably because it is so close and easy to get to London where everyone plays. So that Simple Minds played here was a big deal. It was odd turning out to the Hexagon last Thursday to find queues …
As part of a health kick this year I have been getting out on my bike a couple of times a week. This has been around the relatively quiet roads and cycleways of the place I live on the outskirts of Reading. However, one day a week I go to the office in central London …
Continue reading “I Rode a Boris Bike and Lived to Tell the Tale!”
For years I have been using the bit before the @ in my email address to generate unique email address for company signups to help monitor spam. So, for example, I might use [email protected] for Apple, [email protected] for Samsung and so on. In addition to this I would also always ensure that I ticked the …
A few months ago I received an email via Flickr asking me if some of the photos that I had taken while in Bruges, Belgium and posted to the photo sharing site could be used as inspiration for an art project. I have had requests to use various photos that I have taken and posted to …
For those that are still willing to listen I will happily tell them that my all time favorite album is Strange Kind of Love by Love & Money. I first saw them while at Uni in about 1986 and then not again until they reformed in 2011. However, over the years I have continued to buy what …
Looking through my credit card statement this week I noticed that there was a £12 charge on there for late payment. I was certain that I had setup a direct debit and so wasn’t sure why there would have been a charge. Either way I felt that I had kept my account in good order …
Just on the way back from a long weekend in Yorkshire. It is bright and sunny as we approach Birmingham and not like the winter wonderland we left behind in Harrogate. However, the weather we fine yesterday when we went over to Saltaire and the the Five Rise locks at Bingley. Why anyone thought that …
I have just spent the day in London for work, something that I will now be doing one day a week for the foreseeable future. To get to the office I took public transport all the way using the bus, train and tube. You are encouraged to use public transport through a variety of means …
Continue reading “There is something badly wrong with our public transport system”