To catch up on a couple of items from last weekend – Mr. QPR phoned me on Monday and had no recollection of our conversation on the Sunday – just as I suspected he wouldn’t. Everything on the football front is done now; West Ham got the other promotion spot by beating Blackpool on Saturday, so we’ll be playing them in the Premier League next season. It is also good to note that all of the Williams’ mechanics are back…
Thwarted at every turn. Or: Why is it so hard to spend money? I happened to be in town and remembered that I wanted to buy a bluetooth ear-piece. My previous one died a death last year and I’ve not got around to replacing it yet. I’ve been using a wired set of earphone things with an in-line mic which came with the phone, but I keep getting tangled up when the camera is round my neck and once or…
It’s been an odd week. I was reminded on Friday that we’d had a bank-holiday at the beginning of it, but in the 4 days between, I’d managed to forget all about it. Moreover, I’ve had to look back through my notes to see exactly what I have been doing this week, because the mind seems to have gone on holiday and forgotten to take me with it. I went up to the Honorary Artillery Company’s open evening at their…
What a week! The newly constructed PC and I are getting along reasonably well, I’ve had to question it’s parentage on a few occasions and at one stage it must have thought it’s name began with “C”, four letters and sounds like “punt”. To be fair, I should say that the invective was aimed solely at the OS, not the machine itself. So far, crashes = 0, swear words = ran out of paper….. and swear words… Well, we’ve had…
Well, that didn’t take long. As many will be aware, we have the mayoral elections here in London this week. It’ll be the 3rd time that London has gone to the polls for this purpose; Ken Livingstone won on the first two occasions and Boris Johnson on the third. I’m not going to get political, that is not what this is about, but I will say that when Ken got in the first time he said he’d bring in the…
As this is the first entry, I’ll probably hark back to things that have happened outside of the last week, but where I can I’ll try and give some background. About 10 days ago, my main PC decided to retire. It would have been nice to have some notice – but putting its ticket in at late o’clock on a Wednesday is not really the thing to do , is it? I built it in 2007 and have treated it…