During the holidays I used some some Amazon gift tokens to treat myself to, amongst other things, a box set(*) of Ben Elton concerts to make up for getting rid of my old VHS of his. I wasn’t sure what I would make of them but with nearly seven hours of stand-up for just over […]
Entries from January 28th, 2014
A little bit of politics there
January 28th, 2014 · Comments Off on A little bit of politics there · Life
Dynamo
January 26th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life
I watched a bit of Dynamo on television last night. Actually I watched a lot more than I intended because I always find magic shows to be quite compelling. One thing that kept being said by the people who witnessed his tricks was “that’s just not right”, and I kind of agree with them. When […]
Tags: TV
A real first world problem
January 23rd, 2014 · Comments Off on A real first world problem · Music, Technology
So. About that car that I said I wouldn’t go on about any more? I got a 64GB USB stick and filled it up with music. The car (or rather the car’s computer) had no problem reading such a large capacity and playing anything from it but because of the number of tracks you can […]
Allo John got a new motor?
January 14th, 2014 · 5 Comments · Life
I really must apologise to any friends, family and colleagues I may have bored shitless over the last few weeks about cars, but there is a reason why I got over-excited about what most people would consider a fairly tame car. The thing is, our old Focus was getting to the point where servicing and […]
Tags: Cars
Today’s bright idea #7
January 8th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Life
Today’s bright idea is one that I actually think is quite a good one. You know how BBC Four have been showing episodes of Top Of The Pops of 35 years ago, week-by-week in order, in their totality? It isn’t really watched for the music so much as the nostalgic feeling, mostly from the music […]
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My favourite year
January 5th, 2014 · Comments Off on My favourite year · Music
The other night I sat down to watch the story of Top Of The Pops in 1979, followed by a compilation of clips from that year. Without question, 1979 is my favourite year for music. I know that others will prefer 1983, 1972 or 1967, There may even be some poor misguided fools that think […]
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays·TV
