Another book I read this month is Briefs Encountered by Julian Clary, also from Amazon’s Vine programme. Yes he is as camp as the Millets website but he writes very readable book. I thought that Devil in Disguise was good, but this is even better. Let’s hope he continues dipping his pen into the inkwell [...]
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The Technologists
March 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Life
I recently finished reading The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, another book from Amazon’s Vine programme. It is a hefty 480-page hardback, but thankfully it is a good old-fashioned ripping yarn and reading it was more a pleasure than a struggle. Here is what I wrote about it.
Is the party over for Crawley Town?
March 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
I hope not, but it is not looking good at the moment. Steve Evans is all over the local paper saying we ‘battered’ Southend, and maybe we did but we also only drew when Southend had 9 men and we had a penalty. Of course a couple of games postponed because of frozen pitches and [...]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football
The Geek Manifesto
February 28th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
Over the weekend I finished reading an advance copy of The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson that Amazon sent me. The book is to be published in May and more information about it can be found at www.geekmanifesto.co.uk Amazon don’t really encourage lengthy reviews, so what I wrote only scratches at the surface of what [...]
IMAX coming to Crawley – or is it?
February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Technology
The local papers are making a lot of fuss about the Crawley multiplex opening an IMAX screen next month. On the face of it this is a good thing. At the moment there are only 19 IMAX screens in the UK, so it is a bit of a coup. The only worrying thing is that [...]
Room 101
February 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
Earlier on today I browsed through the BBC iPlayer for something to pass a half hour and settled on Room 101. I had caught this the other week and was a bit baffled by the change in format, but went with it because the new host, Frank Skinner, can usually be relied on to come [...]
Tags: TV
Reasons to be cheerful – part two
February 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Music
A couple of other little things made this weekend a little bit special. Firstly a few CDs arrived on Saturday morning. Last weekend was Kraftwerk weekend on 6 Music, and after that I was moaning on an online forum about how listening to a few shows on iPlayer I tried to track down the first [...]
Reasons to be cheerful
February 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
These are indeed miserable times: redundancies, below-inflation pay rises for yet another year for most of those in work, services deteriorating everywhere, NHS being dismantled, education system being turned into Gove’s own personal brainwashing operation, atrocities in Syria, and everything else. Sometimes it is hard to find anything to be cheerful about, apart from the [...]
Tags: Food
What the papers say
February 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
Thre are a couple of interesting articles on the internet where people have gathered together a whole year’s headlines from a couple of newspapers. Bibliophylax did 2011 as the Express saw it and Scott Bryan did the same for the Daily Star. Very depressing it is too. I thought I might do a little analysis, [...]
Tags: Newspapers
The Return Man
January 31st, 2012 · No Comments · Life
The other day I finished a proof copy of a book called The Return Man by V.M.Zigo. It is due to be published in March and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It is a book set in a future where a mystery virus has created zombies, but the outbreak has been containe, albeit to a [...]
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