Today, when everybody was out, I had a delivery from Amazon which was a bit too big to fit through the letterbox. With Royal Mail this would normally mean a “while you were out” card and a trip to the sorting office. With couriers it usually means a note saying there is a parcel in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Shopping'
Playing the pink recorder
December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
It sounds like a euphemism, a variation on the famous Private Eye ‘pink oboe’ line, but it is for real – you can buy a pink descant recorder at Amazon. An ideal ‘secret santa’ gift for a gay friend with a sense of humour and no love of music.
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Blame Zeus!
December 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Blame Zeus! · Life
I expect to be posting here rather less often for the forseeable future, thanks to a bargain purchase of Master of Olympus and Master of Atlantis for about six quid altogether. According to the package the games contain over 200 hours of gameplay which works out at about 3p for an hour’s entertainment.
Buying the past again: The Beatles v. Kraftwerk
September 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music
Hot on the heels of the Beatles remasters comes the news that Kraftwerk are also re-releasing all their albums (not counting the Ralf & Florian albums) in a remastered form. The weird thing is, and maybe it is unpatriotic, but I would be more likely to buy one or more of the Kraftwerk remasters than […]
Sitting at home can be expensive
September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Sitting at home can be expensive · Life
The internet has made it easy to get skint without leaving the comfort of your own home hasn’t it?  Got home from work this evening and finally got round to sposoring Eddie Izzard for his marathon of marathons. I have been following his progress on Twitter, getting increasingly impressed by the achievement, and intending to […]
Bike parts
June 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bike parts · Work
Today at work we had a local bike shop set up a stall at lunchtime, offering 15% staff discounts at their shop to try and tempt us out of our cars and into accident and emergency onto bicycles. All very worthy, and they do have an extensive catalogue. I would be interested to see how […]
Back to the future
May 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Back to the future · Life
I am now two-thirds of the way through the DVD box set of the Back to the Future trilogy. Somehow I managed to get this far without seeing any of them. I have been on the set in California and seen the town hall and I went on the ride (either in California or Florida. […]
Dead Set
May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Got around to watching Dead Set over the weekend. Not sure I entirely agree with speeding zombies: I watched the interview where Charlie Brooker explained his decision to have them running but I am a bit of an old fuddy-duddy traditionalist and prefer to see zombies shuffling. Still, it was all good fun and Davina […]
Suits you sir!
May 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Suits you sir! · Life
I was in the big Tesco today and got distracted by jackets. I was rather taken with some nice, very light linen jackets because I like wearing them in summer. Didn’t get one because Jayne really doesn’t like them. Shame, as they actually had trousers to go with them. I could have worn it while […]
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A good day
March 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Life, Music
Today ticks all the boxes for being a good day: West Ham didn’t lose Man Utd did lose – thus keeping the Premier League interesting for a while longer Crawley Town won – keeping them within touching distance of the play-offs Went shopping and came back with what I went out for (new trousers) Went […]
