Switching allegiance

What’s going on? Berwick-Upon-Tweed wants to break away from England and become part of Scotland. Seems like Alex Salmond is the new messiah. At the risk of sounding harsh, anyone who abandons their country for the sake of cheaper prescriptions and a free bus pass for OAP’s needs shooting.

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This is the age of the train

Call me weird but I actually like travelling by train the length and breadth of the country. Yesterday it was Leeds. Bit of a brutal start as I was out of bed at 4.50am to get showered, shaved and off to Waverley station for the 6.05 train. You certainly find yourself questioning (albeit temporarily) your [...]

Moletastic

Whilst browsing in HMV yesterday, I stumbled across (not literally) a copy of ‘Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction’ by Sue Townsend. I loved the first Adrian Mole book, back when I was a boy. Little did I suspect that there was a modern sequel.
At first glance it seems like more of the [...]

Radio Ga Ga

DAB radio is the new Betamax. Apparently.
The forthcoming death of Planet Rock radio suddenly seems to have heralded a new wave of speculation as to the future of DAB radio. Apparently, no-one is buying digital radios. What a lot of bollocks. How anyone can say that digital radio is not the future is beyond me. [...]

Time passes. Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold.

A classic quote from the classic text adventure ‘The Hobbit’ - ZX Spectrum circa 1983.
Absolutely nothing to do with this post. I was really just musing about how infrequently I manage to update this blog these days. People said to me that once you have a child you look forward to visits to the toilet [...]