Two examples this week of why you do need to act on impulse when you see something you like for sale at a good price. First is the Creative Zen Vision M 60Gb mp3 player. For what seems like months I have been tempted by Amazon promoting this gadget for £159. Its such a good […]
Entries from September 29th, 2007
How the other half live
September 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Politics
In the Guardian today, Polly Toynbee was quoting Norman Tebbit: Lord Tebbit, the party’s deathless Sauron, shot a deadly pre-conference bolt at Cameron with effusive praise for Gordon Brown – “I think he is a very clever man and I have very considerable regard for him” – while damning his own leader: “I think we […]
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Bargain time
September 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
While looking around town, killing a bit of time after having some birthday drinks, I wandered into that remaindered books-type shop (Book Works?). What a result! I picked up the Rik Mayall autobiography, The Understudy by David Nicholls (who wrote Starter for Ten which I read this month) and a book about Peter Cook and […]
