Monthly Archives: July 2007

Vinyl solution

Posted on July 24, 2007 by blogmywiki

I dug the old turntable out of the loft months ago and never had the time to dub off any of that precious vinyl… and when I did get round to it I discovered the stylus was missing. I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Time travel makes you queasy

Posted on July 22, 2007 by blogmywiki

Further to my pathetic joke “Is ITV 2+1 the same as ITV3?”… we were just watching ITV 2+1 and the announcer said “…and if you missed this programme, it’s just starting now on ITV 2+1″. You’re twisting my melon, man. … Continue reading →

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The name game

Posted on July 12, 2007 by blogmywiki

When we had our first child we just couldn’t agree on his surname. I wanted him to have mine, my wife wanted him to have her’s. So we did that awful compromise and he became a double-barreled Booth-Farmer. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Jon Ronson… going up

Posted on July 7, 2007 by blogmywiki

Who’d have thunk it? Guardian magazine columnist Jon Ronson, who normally winds me up every Saturday morning, has shot up in my estimation. Apparently he recently told mad shyster David Shayler to ‘fuck off’. On Radio 4.

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