It has been effectively for the last three weeks anyway. My Rover was over heating big time - on the A3, the temperature gauge was going off the scale, and the sounds of the engine were increased by the cacophony of the cooling fans working flat out. The garage diagnosed a blown head gasket, so [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Rover Game Over?
Posted in Cider, Entertainment, Television, burgers, food, leisure, sport, travel, tagged Art, Books, Culture, Driving, Entertainment, Events, Family, food, Friends, Humour, Life, Love, News, Personal, politics, Rail, Rail travel, railways, Random, Rover, Rover Cars, Thought, Trains, Transport on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tweet-tastic!
Posted in Cider, Entertainment, Television, burgers, food, leisure, sport, travel, tagged Art, bird, birds, birdsong, Books, Culture, Entertainment, Events, Family, food, Friends, Humour, Life, Love, News, Personal, politics, radio, radio programmes, Random, Thought, tweet, tweeters on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Most radio can usually be categorised as either ‘talk based’, for example LBC, or be ‘music based’, like Virgin Radio, but all that is set to change as the dawn of the Digital Era has spawned a new style of radio broadcasting - there is now a digital station that broadcasts nothing but bird song!
It [...]
March of the Muppets?
Posted in Cider, Entertainment, Television, burgers, food, leisure, sport, travel, tagged Add new tag, Art, Books, Culture, Entertainment, Events, Family, food, Friends, Humour, leisure, Life, Love, Muppets, News, Personal, politics, Random, reality shows, reality tv, sport, Television, The Apprentice, Thoughts on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Is it me, or are this year’s crop of contestants in the BBC1 series ‘The Apprentice’ even more Muppet like than usual? As well as exhibiting the usual traits of self delusion, megalomania and egomania, quite a high proportion of this years selection of business hopefuls seem to be, in politically correct terms, common sensually challenged, [...]
Pub Price Polarisation
Posted in Cider, Entertainment, Television, burgers, food, leisure, sport, travel, tagged Add new tag, Art, beer, Books, business, Culture, Entertainment, Events, Family, food, Friends, Humour, leisure, Life, Love, News, Personal, politics, prices, Pub Prices, pubs, Random, sport, Television, Thought, travel on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Price rises, as anyone but the most naive will tell you, are a fact of life, and the cost of drinks in pubs is no exception to this rule. Whilst not claiming to remember that halcyon period when you could buy seventeen pints, all the Pork Scratchings you could shove in your cake hole, a [...]
