If you get bored of looking at traffic, check this journey. It’s definitely slightly out of the ordinary.. Read more →
Rare colour footage from D-Day
Teach the younger generation about the war.. Read more →
Radio X – Can they stick to their guns?
Here in the UK there’s generally two types of radio station. One type will broadcast a certain style of music, news or entertainment. The other type is that idiotic, commercial pap with shouty character-less DJ’s who seem to have an unnaturally “hyper” voices and play cheesy pop music to please as many people as possible. It’s generic, it’s cheap. It’s… Read more →
Umm.. Don’t quite know what to make of this
Vocals? Good. Dancing? Also good. The combination of the two? Well, just a bit bonkers really… Read more →
Bloody hell and then some
Car racing, with a twist. Lord knows how they do this for so long without bashing into each other. Madness.. Read more →
I love this website
The Daily Mail is one of the most click-bait low-grade internet-scraping piles of arse I’ve ever had the misfortune to click on. It delights in warping stories in order to gain clicks and comments. It’s arse, but people buy it because they’re addicted to the cheap thrill of newspaper and internet sensation as it’s possibly more interesting than refreshing the… Read more →
British plugs are bloody great
I’ve been to China recently and, in the hotel, they had British sockets. Sure, there was a weird mish-mash of other sockets (they seem to have the Australian type mainly), but there was actual British sockets in the hotel. In Hong Kong, proper British sockets. In Cyprus, where I was recently, more British sockets. Bloody brilliant. This is why.. Read more →
EE and BT Openreach only took a month and a half to fix my telephone line
This is 2015, but for some reason we have a shit system in this country where internet providers and phone providers have to use BT Openreach to get lines investigated and fixed. Now, during a recent fault I was told explicitly by EE (my provider for the home phoneline) that the BT Openreach report showed that an engineer had visited… Read more →
EE and BT Openreach craziness update
OK. Since my earlier post we now have another email from EE customer service. I asked them to raise another complaint because they’d lost the first complaint, and I asked them to confirm that there was definitely a fault. Their response? It’s another badly written email filled with terrible English.. Sorry to know that you are experiencing connectivity issue with… Read more →
EE, BT Openreach and my home phone line – UPDATE
Saw my undignified rant about EE and BT Openreach yesterday? Well today there’s movement! YAY! Except, it’s in the wrong direction. It seems that our home phone won’t let us call any numbers now either. It was at least doing that before. Our actual phone number no longer routes to our house at all, and if I call the home… Read more →
EE and BT Openreach – A complete customer service nightmare.
So today I’d like to tell you a story about my home broadband provider. They’re the same people who supply my mobile phone – EE. I chose them because they were, if I’m honest, cheap. Things rapidly went downhill within months of choosing them for my home phone and fibre broadband because they put their prices up mid-contract. As this… Read more →
Remember the 80’s ?
Oh boy oh boy oh boy. Stick with it. Believe me. Stick with it. Lots of 1980’s celebs all crammed onto one stage. Brilliant. :) Read more →
No I don’t look good naked any more
Damn that’s catchy… Read more →
Top Gear VW Commercial
Remember this? I miss Top Gear already! Read more →
Don’t spill your beer
This blog is started to look a bit forlorn isn’t it? There was a time when I used to update it almost daily, but sadly Twitter has sucked all my mojo and now my thoughts are just 140 characters. Brief and fleeting. Anyhow. Have a magical robot arm thing that stops you spilling your beer. Megaaaaa Read more →
Yeah it’s Monday, but it’s time to get funky. :)
Three rather excellent tunes mixed together beautifully. Well worth a listen.. Read more →
OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod! Best advert ever!
McVities. Amazing. Boom! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-Bqup7mGo If you’ve got NO IDEA why this is so good, it’s AIRWORLF goddamit!!! :) Read more →
Repaircare. Do not use them. This is why.
Beware, this is a lengthy post about an appliance repair company called Repaircare. I have an email which is about 5 pages long and contains the endless disasters I’ve experienced when trying to get anything done with them. It’s a story that starts early in February 2015 and ends late in July. It’s a tale of woe, of lies, of… Read more →
July Tunes, Part 2
For some reason YouTube blocked one of the videos yesterday, so here we go again with the Julio Bashmore track. Why this gets blocked when it’s available on the official YouTube channel I don’t know. It’s all about revenue I guess.. Here’s another rather heavy tune that I’m loving at the moment .. DJ Haus – Make it hot !!!… Read more →
America and gun control
The United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. If you look at the number of Americans killed by terrorism since 9/11, it’s less than 100. If you look at the number killed by gun violence, it’s… Read more →
Good morning Thursday – Tunes for July
The only lyrics I seem to know from this song are “it’s all frozen”. Still, I’m still singing it lots. Julio Bashmore feat. Sam Dew – Holding on… “Ooo-woah-a”. :) Gorgeous summer anthem this one. Crank it up loud and dance around your garden, whether it’s sunny or not. This gets better by the minute. Crisp and bassy all at… Read more →
Piff the Magic Dragon
No, no, this is a real thing. To us here in the UK this guy is just laid back and kinda cool, but in America they seem to be confused and excited about how relaxed he is when on the US version of “Got Talent”… Head to his website if you want more. Like this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=17&v=bgb3mKL8nyA Read more →