Where is the sense in this, Amazon?
So I have been looking at buying a album on Amazon. I have pretty much stopped buying CDs unless they are offering something that I cannot get from the download alone, such as it being signed. As you can see from the image right in this particular case it would be cheaper to buy the …
What the British Really Want
Bill going thru Parliament to rename August Bank Holiday “Margaret Thatcher Day”. When you stop throwing up-sign this http://t.co/pereTXZRrU — Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) January 13, 2014 So while signing this very worthwhile e-petition, highlighted to me by Stephen Mangan (to be clear it wasn’t specifically sent to me by Mangan, I’m not that special to …
It's a Bit Wet Out There!
So you may have noticed that it has been raining virtually non-stop for the last couple of weeks and is predicted to continue for a while yet. All this water has to go somewhere and the capacity of rivers is not enough to hold it all. This leads to flooding on a scale I haven’t …
Souper!
For Christmas some friends of ours gave us some Stilton. However, this was no ordinary cheese, this was Colston Bassett Stilton from Neal’s Yard Dairy. It tastes wonderful but there is simply too much to eat so we have to find other uses for it, in this case making Broccoli and Stilton soup. Lots of …
I Predict for 2014
For the last few years we have met with the same friends on New Year’s Eve. We do the same things as everyone else: we eat, we drink, we laugh and generally have a good time but sometime on New Year’s Eve 2011 someone, I forget who, made a suggestion that has now become a …
Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
219 Races on 2014 F1 Calendar
According to the Metro paper this morning there will be “219 races in 2014, one less than this year”. Now I like my F1 but I really don’t think I could watch WilliamsF1 run round at the back of the field that many times a year!
Dr Who Exhibition, Cardiff
I’ve been to the Dr Who Experience once before but since then it has moved to a bigger space and the show has got even bigger. Also I was visiting on 23rd November, the day of the 50th anniversary so I had assumed that it would put on a bit of a show. It was …
Mary Rose Exhibition, Portsmouth
Having lived and studied in Portsmouth for four years I have been down to the historic dockyard a number of times and seen the Mary Rose. While it has been undergoing its restoration over the last 30 years it has been housed in what was little more than a plastic hanger. That has now changed …