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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →