Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I’ve decided that Birmingham gets a bad rap. This last weekend Helen and I spent the weekend there, ostensibly to visit our younger son who is studying at university there but also as a chance to spend a weekend away. And Birmingham is really not as bad as people make out. In fact it is …
A couple of years ago a mate of mine started to buy a new CD a week and tweeted it’s title and a (very) small review. Despite the rest of the world having moved over to downloads Dirk has continued his weekly CD buying habit ever since. I find it fascinating that there is quite so …
So I have been looking at buying a album on Amazon. I have pretty much stopped buying CDs unless they are offering something that I cannot get from the download alone, such as it being signed. As you can see from the image right in this particular case it would be cheaper to buy the …
Bill going thru Parliament to rename August Bank Holiday “Margaret Thatcher Day”. When you stop throwing up-sign this http://t.co/pereTXZRrU — Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) January 13, 2014 So while signing this very worthwhile e-petition, highlighted to me by Stephen Mangan (to be clear it wasn’t specifically sent to me by Mangan, I’m not that special to …
So you may have noticed that it has been raining virtually non-stop for the last couple of weeks and is predicted to continue for a while yet. All this water has to go somewhere and the capacity of rivers is not enough to hold it all. This leads to flooding on a scale I haven’t …
For Christmas some friends of ours gave us some Stilton. However, this was no ordinary cheese, this was Colston Bassett Stilton from Neal’s Yard Dairy. It tastes wonderful but there is simply too much to eat so we have to find other uses for it, in this case making Broccoli and Stilton soup. Lots of …
For the last few years we have met with the same friends on New Year’s Eve. We do the same things as everyone else: we eat, we drink, we laugh and generally have a good time but sometime on New Year’s Eve 2011 someone, I forget who, made a suggestion that has now become a …
