I’ve started getting a lot of spam on this blog. All of it from Italy.
What would Jamie Oliver would think?
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
Today on BBC 6 Music, Gideon Coe was getting listeners to vote for ‘great lost tear-jerkers’. Three tracks to choose from, including ‘Ship-building’ by Robert Wyatt and ‘Tank Park Salute’. I hadn’t heard ‘Tank Park Salute’ for years, all my Billy Bragg records are locked on vinyl, away from my iPod, and so I voted for it. It won.
I vaguely remembered the song bringing a tear to my eye back in 1991. I hadn’t reckoned on what having three children and the death of my father would do the emotional power of this song. I cried for ages and keep welling up when I think of the lyrics which have been in my head all day.
Some photographs of a summer’s day
A little boy’s lifetime away
Is all I’ve left of everything we’ve done
05:20 Shipping Forecast
Nappies and motorbikes. Rising. Good.
06:20 Today
Posh bird tries to finish over-running interviews by repeating the first syllable of guest’s name. Humphries harrumphs. Sport bloke makes joke which falls flat as no-one else on the programme gives a toss about sport.
11:30 With Great Pleasure…
…I hurl the radio out of the window because I hate my middle class Le Creuset-pan-and-Dualit-toaster existence. Well, I tried but the DAB radio got snagged on its mains lead and it only got as far as the quarry-tiled floor.
12:30 Smug, Unsmug
With our host, Nigel Smug.
18:15 Loose Ends
This week Ned’s guests include comedy duo Toss and Pott, fresh from their sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show. Plus music from jazz trio Chisolm, currently appearing at Pizza on the Park.
01:00 As BBC World Service
Thank heavens, now I can get some proper sleep.
I know this is a bit unfair, as I think Apple shares did shoot up one day, and down the next. But this BBC New web page looked a bit silly when the two headlines appeared so close to each other. (Click on the image for some thoughts from fellow Flickr users.)
I’ll tell you the real reason Big Brother is such Big News.
People just like saying “Shilpa Shetty”.
I just said it to myself just now. Mmmm. Feels good.
Our new ironing board cover needs ironing.
The vacuum cleaner could do with a quick hoover, also.
Amazingly, despite a generally positive reaction, the new iPhone seems to have more-than-literally decimated the value of Apple’s shares - according to BBC News Online. They are now apparently only worth 8% of yesterday’s value.
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