Cats Love Macs Catching up with the Unofficial Apple Weblog tonight, they had a great little article that highlighted the 'Cats Love Macs' group on Flickr - just the kind of group for Mac owners who are cat lovers too... The contents of the group are essentially what it says on the tin......
Fear Her As with the series of Doctor Who last year, the final two episodes before the finale, have been much more small scale, and in some ways a little different. Last week we had a largely Doctor-less story, Love and Monsters, and this week we got Fear Her, a which is......
Canada Trip Pictures and Video Clips Both Beth and myself have now got all of our pictures uploaded to Flickr, and in my case some of the videos. You can find my set of pictures here and the pictures Beth took are here. There are more videos to come, but amongst the interesting stuff so far......
Obsessive Cat You might have seen the BBC report earlier in the week about the rise of YouTube. This was the video they used on the TV as an example of the kind of content on the site - and yes it is two-and-a-half minutes of a cat flushing a toilet... Needless......
A Little Bit of Entertainment A few things to keep you entertained... First off, Jen has discovered that the John Lewis website apparently tracks the most popular searches, and is undertaking an experiment to see whether it does. All you need to do is head over to the John Lewis website and search for 'squirrel'......
Hot Air Balloon Hat tip to Andrew, our choir master for this one... A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, 'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him......
Finchampstead Barn Dance It's years since I've been to a Barn Dance - in fact thinking about it, the last one was probably my cousins wedding about a decade ago. Certainly Beth had never been to one. I'd been to several at our Church when I was a child, and apparently they used......
Bishop John Pictures The Diocesan Web Site has publish a series of pictures taken on the day that Bishop John was introduced, and then from his whistle-stop tour of the Diocese. Interestingly there is not much in the way of captions - however Dave has thoughtfully provided an amusing commentary for a couple......
The Bishop of Oxford at St James We've just got back from the first of this years series of Lent Lectures at St James, a talk on inter-faith dialogue from Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford. It was quite an occasion in the life of the church, as thanks to the size of the diocese of Oxford,......
Life Imitating Art? If you're a West Wing fan you might have noticed some similarities between the presidential election campaign where Matthew Santos, a young inexperienced congressman from an ethnic minority is a candidate, and a certain Barack Obama. Hat tip to Ewan Spence for linking to an interesting article in the Guardian......
So there I was, quietly working away on the computer, and then I hear this loud meow from over my shoulder…
It’s our beloved Sophie, sat in the sink in the bathroom, demanding a drink of water.
You can see the rest of the pictures in our picture gallery, suffice to say that once she’s got my attention, this is a well practised routine.
She always used to demand water in the bath, so first off she will go and sit in the bath and stare at the taps, then once I’ve seen that, she’ll hop up and stand back in the sink again, until I can move her enough to get the plug into the plughole and run some water. Having said that, half the time the disruption of having had to move her out the way to run the water means she goes off in a huff…
Oxford Diocese Young People - Meet the Bishop Afternoon Almost eighteen months ago, when we were still helping with the running of the Youth Group, Beth and myself took three of our young people up to Church House in Oxford to participate in the consultation process to choose the new Bishop of Oxford. Although it was never a guarantee,......
Doctor Who - Jumping the Shark? So after a disappointing finale, and a couple of major announcements about the series, a number of fans can hear the sounds of Fonzie readying a pair of water ski's... All of this is more amazing following on mere weeks from the triumphs that were Human Nature, Family of Blood......
Things we Learnt on Holiday 2 Float planes really don't like calm water. One of the things I've always wanted to do was fly in a float plane. I guess it's having watched series like Tales of the Gold Monkey which included a Grumman Goose flying boat. But anyway, since on this holiday Beth was going......
Testing Beta's TechCrunch today published an interesting article giving tips for tech companies, particularly those involved in the latest online developments on how to make the best of their beta programmes. Whilst in the past most people would never see beta releases unless they were signed up to specific beta programmes, but......
Fifteen Minutes of Fame So since I have a nice little device that can play video, I've been trawling through all the old video clips I have sitting around to try them out. One item I came across was this, our fifteen minutes of fame from early 2003 back when Inside Out interviewed us......
A sad little bit of news today from my parents. This morning they had to have Luther, one of their two Red Burmese cats put down. Considering that back in 1992, Luther who was the runt of the litter wasn’t expected to survive into adulthood, and indeed never grew to full size, he’s had a good long life at fifteen years.
He’s been going steadily downhill for the past few months, and has been suffering with his teeth to the point that he hasn’t been eating much, and only usually when someone is there to feed him, so Mum and Dad have ended up hand feeding him four times a day for the past few months. Eventually yesterday he was barely moving and rather than see his quality of life deteriorate any more they took the decision to take him along to the vets this morning and have him put to sleep.
The picture on this page shows how Luther usually greeted visitors to the house, by flopping over and expecting attention, he also liked sitting on your left shoulder – and note, only the left shoulder – being on the right would generally produce a lot of fidgeting to get over onto the correct side! Like most Burmese he was very sociable, and also could be very vocal at times. He also in younger times would quite happily play fetch and retrieve games – something again that Burmese are known for doing.
Suddenly Human One of the favourite techniques used by regular weekly shows is to have an episode that plays with the underlying concept, so for example we have the Mirror Universe stories in Star Trek, or stories such as Superman II where the hero either looses or gives up his powers. Doctor......
Clergy Against Laity Last week I posted about the growing media interest in the goings on at St Mary and St Michael in Trumpington. The Church Times this week carries a more detailed report, which gives a bit more insight into what is going on. Tom Ambrose, the vicar at the centre of......
Microsoft Employee in Dodgy Picture Shocker If you're wondering what the post title is all about, read on and all will be revealed! Anyway, today I was at the inaugural WebDD event held at the Microsoft UK campus near Reading, having grown out of the previous Developer Developer Developer events that have been running at the......
Another Geocaching Convert? You know those moments when someone thinks they're telling you about some really great secret, but you, and a load of other people already know? Various of us at St James had that experience this morning listening to Rev Richard's sermon. On his day off, he and Penny his wife......
A Reunion that Worked? It has to be said, that in the past, reunion episodes of Doctor Who have never exactly worked. Usually, in an effort to bring back in an old face, the plot has suffered somewhat, and although it is usually fun to see old characters, they generally aren't the best episodes.......
Another hat tip to Howard – who based on his Flickr stream has had his life taken over by his cats – for the lolcat Bible. You’re either going to think it’s hilarious, or in pretty poor taste, but it’s an effort to produce the bible as written in the cat language that has grown up through sites like I Can Has Cheezburger.
Nokia N770 - Does Exactly what it Says on the Tin Shortly before we went off to France, I came across a special offer from Expansys on the Nokia N770 Internet Tablet. When it was released, the device retailed for just under £250 - Expansys were selling it for £75. The tablets seemed to be going like hot cakes, and it......
Bullying the Bloggers Periodically I come across stories where bloggers who have written, sometimes about seemingly minor subjects, have ended up on the receiving end of legal threats over their posts. Dave Walker, best known for his cartoons is the latest. Yesterday a significant number of his posts were taken down, followed briefly......
Hotline Just thought I'd share a picture of a couple of little “den warming� presents to celebrate having a working setup in our new den, and give a quick update as to why it's been a bit quiet around here recently. With regards to the den, it's a great little space......
Knights that say Ning Ok, I know it's a tenuous link - but I'm not the only one who instantly thought of Monty Python when I heard about Ning! I have to say, that I hadn't come across Ning until Scoble interviewed Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame) and Gina Bianchini recently, and also filmed......
I'm a PC Microsoft are in a strange position. Despite still producing the operating system that holds the dominant position in the market, still producing the office platform that holds the dominant position in the market, and still producing the dominant web browser, they are seen as being under threat. The reason? Their......
Fly Tipping by J R Hartley Every so often I catch an edition of Rogue Traders, a BBC consumer show that uses secret filming to trap unscrupulous tradesmen. In the past it has been everything from solar panel salesmen to gardeners, and is usually a catalogue of dodgy selling techniques, and shoddy workmanship. Tonight, the subject......
A Very Different Whitehouse Hat tip to the Flickr Blog for highlighting the White House Photostream, which does seem to show a pretty candid behind the scenes view of the Obama White House. I’m quite sure all the pictures have been suitably cleared, but it does seem that the photostream gives you a lot......
One Click from Danger Hat tip to Ian over at Youthblog for pointing out the Panorama tonight - One Click from Danger. I've blogged several times before about various aspects of online safety, in particular Bebo and Myspace including the irony of the fact that on the one hand we've had regular concerned parents......
Got Me! Drat, my cunning ploy to minimise the number of pictures of me seems to have failed - an e-mail turned up from The MacGregors this morning with some pictures they'd taken after their concert last month. Not only do I turn up in the background of a picture of Ian......
Apparently after faking the results of one competition, it has been revealed that producers of Blue Peter have again deceived the public with a story that their new cat, Socks, wasn’t the name that was selected in an online poll.
Having said that, dig into the story a little bit, and you’ll actually find it was because the poll selected an unsuitable name. Amusingly few of the articles have actually said what the unsuitable name actually is. Expecting something shocking, I came across this Times article which drops the following hint:
Socks was the name chosen for the Blue Peter cat by the programme’s producers, although insiders said that the decision was taken because the most common name selected – a variant on Puss – was deemed to be inappropriate.
Having found out what the name actually is, I do think that you’ll find that there were a good few non-viewers who voted for that for a laugh. As to it being inappropriate, and the fact that neither the BBC online service or the broadsheets are reporting the actual name, it is ironic to consider that thirty years ago prime-time BBC comedy series Are You Being Served used the same name as the basis for a running gag… How times have changed!
Update: The BBC have now released a statement claiming that the name that won the poll that wasn’t used was Cookie – quite why producers changed the vote and went for Socks instead I don’t know. The Times is still quoting the original story attributing it to BBC staff – but also quoting that the corporation is officially saying ‘Cookie’. Digital Spy is saying that it is because Socks was considered a more suitable name for a kitten. On what basis is Cookie considered inappropriate for a children’s programme or less suitable for a kitten than Socks? Certainly I’ve known several people who have used one or other of the names for pets before and not had any concerns about the names being inappropriate for their children. Very strange…
The Queen One of the recent movie releases I'd particularly wanted to see was the critically acclaimed Stephen Frears film The Queen, which won two awards at this years Venice Film Festival. The film follows Stephen Frears acclaimed and controversial TV drama The Deal looking at the relationship between Tony Blair and......
Star Wars Comes To DVD True to their publicity, Amazon have managed to deliver the DVD release of the first Star Wars Trilogy to my desk by 9am on the morning it is released. Although I've already got the movies on VHS, it is in the original version, bought the first time they did a......
Forest of the Dead Years ago when Star Trek: The Next Generation did a two part episode, it seemed to be almost a given that part two would be a bit of a letdown, that the exciting cliff-hanger built up in part one wouldn't go anywhere much in part two. Steven Moffat on the......
Who Will Host Formula One? In amongst the great news that Formula 1 is returning to the BBC - no more ad breaks mid-race - and some interesting discussion as to why the broadcaster is changing mid-contract - is another discussion about who will host the programme. Steve Rider, who hosted the programme for the......
The Sky+ HD Experience We now have Sky TV in glorious HD, no thanks to Sky themselves - this song from the Simpsons seems appropriate to describe the quality of the install... (words here) In the past I've had one or two issues with Sky installers, generally a drawn out discussion getting them to......
So it seems that our night-time watcher has taken to sitting by our door during the day too…
I snapped off this picture of Ebony, the cat from two doors down as I got home this evening. Beth confirmed that she’d been curled up like this outside our house an hour before too. Certainly it seems like she is pretty comfortable to snooze here, despite it being a pretty open spot. Having said that, we’re not quite sure why she finds this particular spot so attractive, as there aren’t any warm pipes or anything like that which we are aware of. Maybe it’s just one of these cat fad moments, and in a week or two she’ll find somewhere new to sleep…
Finchampstead Dawn to Dusk This fantastic atmospheric picture of St James is on of the pictures from the Finchampstead Dawn to Dusk calendar that Rolfe Markham has put together to raise money for the Conservation appeal. The calendar includes shots from all around the area including a great shot of Wellingtonia Avenue, a lovely......
Oxford Diocese Young People - Meet the Bishop Afternoon Almost eighteen months ago, when we were still helping with the running of the Youth Group, Beth and myself took three of our young people up to Church House in Oxford to participate in the consultation process to choose the new Bishop of Oxford. Although it was never a guarantee,......
Christmas Pictures I've uploaded a few pictures of our family Christmas get together to Flickr, including quite a few pictures that will probably leave Lucy with a Christmas tree phobia for life... Unfortunately the sleeping bag is a little big for her now, and will be way too small come next year.........
Got Me! Drat, my cunning ploy to minimise the number of pictures of me seems to have failed - an e-mail turned up from The MacGregors this morning with some pictures they'd taken after their concert last month. Not only do I turn up in the background of a picture of Ian......
The Bump So the twelve weeks is up, so we can now officially announce that we are having a baby. There are of course one or two people who already know, notably anybody who catered for us when we were in Canada, there are also one or two people who guessed, mostly......
Coming in and out of our house at night, we’ve been getting the strangest feeling that we’re being watched. There have also been strange scuffling noises close to the door too.
At first I thought that maybe our previous nocturnal visitor had returned, but no, a deft bit of surprise camera work with the mobile phone, and we get some evidence. True it’s much like the blurry indistinct evidence you often get when someone claims to have seen something strange, but anyway, we have our culprit.
It seems that Ebony, the jet black cat who lives two doors down has decided that sitting between the front doors of our house and next door is the ideal spot to hide out in the dark, especially as her colour makes her really difficult to spot in the dark!
Losing It in the Boardroom Last night was perhaps the first time watching The Apprentice that I've thought Sir Alan has got it really wrong - and I wasn't alone. The audience of The Apprentice: You're Fired were almost unanimous with almost everybody disagreeing with Sir Alan's decision, everybody at work thought it was the......
Artistic Adverts I don't know whether the producers of The Apprentice make a note when they are picking candidates, or whether there is some strange kind of symbiosis between getting on in business and being a frustrated actor or director, but whenever Sir Alan dusts down the advertising task there are always......
Shedwatch Our “garden shed for purposes ancillary to dwelling� is now going up, despite the pretty lousy weather. Beth is taking pictures of the operation as it progresses, a slideshow of which you can see below.  Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. So far the only small issue has been over the......
Fear Her As with the series of Doctor Who last year, the final two episodes before the finale, have been much more small scale, and in some ways a little different. Last week we had a largely Doctor-less story, Love and Monsters, and this week we got Fear Her, a which is......
iPhone/iPod Touch API Wow Factor? In the totally unscientific Beth test, the upcoming iPhone/iPod Touch SDK certainly seems to have the wow factor. Yesterday I was watching the video of the SDK launch event, Beth came in whilst they were going through demonstrations of some of the applications developed using the SDK, and some of......
You might have seen the BBC report earlier in the week about the rise of YouTube. This was the video they used on the TV as an example of the kind of content on the site – and yes it is two-and-a-half minutes of a cat flushing a toilet… Needless to say this isn’t our cat – she has trouble remembering what to do with a litter tray at times…
Junk Mail Own Goal There has been an amusing own goal by the Royal Mail over the past couple of days. You might not be aware, but there are two sorts of junk mail that come through your letterbox. The first is stuff that is directly addressed to you, or more often than not......
Let the Discussions Begin So in amongst the usual selection of specials and weird cross-overs Children in Need last night included a preview of the first two minutes of the upcoming Christmas Doctor Who, The Next Doctor. After David Tennant's recent announcement there is much speculation over the title of the new episode, more......
The Fastest Milk Float in the West You say 'electric car' to most people in the UK, and the majority will think of the frustration of following a slow milk float in traffic. Certainly the milk float has contributed to the opinion that electric vehicles are generally pretty slow - indeed the production options for electric cars......
Be Careful What You Say To The Entertainer Before A Show! Tonight Beth learned a valuable lesson, be careful what you tell an entertainer before the show - you never quite know what will come back at you! The entertainer in question was Richard Popovich, half of Richard and Deborah, who we saw doing their Roaring Twenties show on the Alberta......
Picking Up a Parcel in Reading One of the more annoying hassles we discovered when we moved to our present house was that we had moved into a postcode delivered from the sorting office in Reading, rather than the more convenient offices in Wokingham or Crowthorne. Although in general it's not too much of a problem......
Catching up with the Unofficial Apple Weblog tonight, they had a great little article that highlighted the ‘Cats Love Macs‘ group on Flickr – just the kind of group for Mac owners who are cat lovers too…
The contents of the group are essentially what it says on the tin – loads of pictures of cats with Macs, and there are some great shots there.
Dolly Varden at St James' Following on from the concert by the MacGregors earlier in the month, last night we had a similar evening, this time with Dolly Varden (well most of them - Matt the drummer isn't on this tour) a band based in Chicago. In terms of number of attendees it was......
Flickr Adds Video - People Start to Moan It didn't take long for a group of Flickr users to start kicking up a fuss about the latest new feature. Lets face it, it seems it doesn't take long for a group of Flickr users to start kicking up a fuss about almost any change - indeed I myself......
Apple and Sony Ericsson Announce New Products Whilst you might expect that the Apple announcement today would be the most exciting, I'm with The Unofficial Apple Weblog in thinking that after all the rumours, it was a bit of a letdown. Really the iPod cases and Intel based Mac Mini's haven't really hit the 'I want one'......
The Annual Mac Attack from PC Pro Last year it was Vista v MacOS X that compared a shipping version of MacOS X with a beta version of Vista, this time around, PC Pro has rolled out “32 Reasons Why PC's are Better Than Macs� as it's annual cover article bashing the Mac, and what a pretty......
Bill Gates in Newsweek As part of his round of press interviews to coincide with the consumer launch of Vista, Bill Gates has given an interview to Newsweek which has got various people in the Mac community amused. The question that has attracted most attention is on page 2 of the interview: In many......
Now I have to say that I’ve been trying for a while to get a picture of Sophie in one of her more weird poses for a while – and usually by the time I’ve grabbed a camera she’s moved.
However tonight I finally succeeded, and if you look closely I’ve even got her yawning too!
This is a bit of a favourite spot for her, well in fact most places on the landing are favourite spots as the cupboard behind her contains the hot water tank, and most of the hot water pipes for the heating run out from this cupboard under the floor.
Now I really can’t understand why this is a comfortable position in which to sleep!
Discovering Great Flickr Pictures Last week, blogging photographer Thomas Hawk wrote a great piece extolling the virtues of FriendFeed for discovering great pictures on Flickr. I'm certainly with him in that respect for a couple of reasons. Firstly, unlike the contacts page on Flickr itself, FriendFeed has a nice expanding interface that allows you......
Race for Life 2006 I've just uploaded the pictures I took of Beth and a number of other women from St James taking part in the 2006 Race for Life, held in Prospect Park, Reading, in aid of Cancer Research. As some of the people in the St James team were from the Youth......
A Daytime Picture of our Watcher So it seems that our night-time watcher has taken to sitting by our door during the day too... I snapped off this picture of Ebony, the cat from two doors down as I got home this evening. Beth confirmed that she'd been curled up like this outside our house an......
Household Troops Band Last night, we spent a very enjoyable evening at the Salvation Army Hall in Reading. We were there to hear the 20th Anniversary concert of the Household Troops Band, who were in the area as they were playing in the Lord Mayors Show this morning. The reason we went along......
So did you work out Bad Wolf? So we've just watched the final part of Doctor Who, and it was definitely a great episode. Rather than an entire forty-five minutes of dalek mayhem it was split into four parts, with the daleks in only the first and third parts. Surprisingly the cliffhanger with Rose trapped on the......
So this week we finally got a diagnosis for what is wrong with Sophie, our cat – and the diagnosis also could explain some of the other bits of her behaviour too.
The reason we had taken her along to the vets was because for the third time in the last year or so she had again had a session of repeatedly vomiting for no apparent reason. Now like most cats she has vomiting sessions, usually after eating grass, or having eaten her food too quickly, but these have been a little different. Usually she hasn’t been outside, or eaten anything recently, she just starts vomiting, does so several times over an hour or so, and then is absolutely fine. However when the vet takes a look at her, the only symptom is a slightly elevated temperature. Alongside that she has also been drinking a lot of water (and she will only drink from the sink in the bathroom), and has been loosing weight, despite eating her normal levels of wet food. Anyway, after the most recent visit, the vet suggested doing some blood tests, and now we actually have a diagnosis.
Sophie is suffering from Feline Hyperthyroidism, which explains the weight loss, the vomiting and the thirst. Hyperactivity is also a symptom, which maybe explains some of the dashing around the house and howling that we’ve previously put down to her quirky personality.
Currently she is on a selection of pills to stabalise her thyroid gland, before a decision on treatment is made in a couple of weeks. The choices are much the same as the human equivalent, either radiotherapy, or surgery to remove the thyroid. Radiotherapy will involve Sophie spending three weeks at a specialist in London, whilst the surgery can be performed locally, so currently, assuming she checks out in a couple of weeks, it may be the surgery.
Having said that, we’re really rather gald that we took out pet insurance on Sophie, as the bill for even getting to the diagnosis stage is the best part of £1000!
Send in the Dancing Girls In a choice which I'm sure surprised a lot of people, Sir Alan Sugar has named Simon Ambrose as the winner of series 3 of The Apprentice. Having described him two weeks ago as Teflon Simon, it was a result I was half expecting - from the fact that Sir......
Apprentice x3 So last night we had a bit of an apprentice catch up. Having been away for a couple of weeks we had the last two weeks stored up, plus another episode going out last night. First off we had the week three “Pub Grub� task. The idea was that each......
Two Birds with One Stone One of the things about the Apprentice is that every so often it does throw up a surprise in the boardroom. This week was one of those weeks. I said last week, that the shopping list task is usually entertaining, and this time was no exception. As has been shown......
The Choir Over the past three weeks I've been avidly watching The Choir on BBC2. The series followed Gareth Malone, who currently runs two choirs for the London Symphony Orchestra, taking a choir to the fourth World Choir Games in China. However it wasn't one of his LSO choirs that he took,......
A Week of iPhone 3G I'm just coming to the end of my first week with an iPhone 3G. Unlike some I didn't sample the whole queuing and activation chaos last Friday. I managed to get one of the limited stocks that O2 had available online last Monday by getting in within the first hour......
This morning, the word on the street (where the street is actually the foot of my bed) was that, sometime late last night, the cat food bowl ran almost empty.
This news was imparted to me with such urgency that I assumed it must have been meant for a much wider distribution, as if my fuzzy friends had used their super-keen senses to detect an imminent earthquake or another global-warming-induced hurricane.
It is well-known, of course, that cats can die to death from not eating for six hours. Or, in this case, from having to eat the kibble bits left on the bottom of the bowl, which is clearly less desirable, else why would it be left over? It was the kibble found wanting, and to have to eat it would be tantamount to death, at least.
We’re having a similar problem with Sophie at the moment. Like a lot of pets she is very much a creature of habit, and will start to get quite vocal if she doesn’t get fed at her usual times, don’t do things the way we usually do (for example when we go on holiday). On a usual day she expects food at about 6am, goes off and goes to sleep when we would usually leave for work, is sat on the stairs or behind the door when we get home, and in the evening it is demanding food for around 10pm.
However, this past week we have had the annual problem caused by the clock change, which of course she doesn’t cope with at all, so she’s decided that if we haven’t got up and fed her at 5am that we should be and she starts complaining. In the evening from about 7:30pm now she is trying to trip you up if you go anywhere near the kitchen, I assume on the basis that since we forgot to feed her until an hour later the night before, we need to be reminded early. In general we’re getting a lot of complaining because we’ve changed our schedule.
Matters are made somewhat worse by the fact that we’ve recently been shutting her out of our room at night, since she took to sleeping either on top of Beth, or wedged in on the end of her pillow, rather than on the end of the bed where Sophie had slept before – so we get pretty vocal complaining about that too. Remind me again, why is it that we have a pet?
24 Day 5 Gets Started So last night we kicked off the fifth day of 24, with Jack living incognito and working on oil rigs, Tony and Michelle back together and running their own business, and President Palmer writing his memoirs. As you can see, unlike last year when there was an almost totally new......
Here we Go Again Big Brother 8 has kicked off, netting Channel 4 a 6.2 million average audience last night. The twist this year is that all the eleven initial housemates are women... For a straightforward run-down of the first housemates head over to the BBC. Alternatively, The Times is once again providing a......
Traffic Chaos Gets Worse Things got a whole load worse this week with the closure of the A327 that I blogged about last week. Whilst we had a nice break over the Bank Holiday, with the road being reopened from late Friday afternoon until Tuesday morning, the barriers were back up on Tuesday night.......
BBC Drama on a Roll The most recent issue of SFX magazine included reviews of three of the new batch of BBC Drama; Doctor Who and the Christmas Invasion, Life on Mars and the third series of Sea of Souls. Certainly I feel bound to agree. In the recent past, it used to be that......
Typical - Big Concert and Richard Gets a Cough So with our big Autumn Concert coming up tomorrow, what was a slightly sore throat on Wednesday night has progressed through occasional coughing, to a delightful tickly cough today - problem is that it's just the kind of cough that can reduce me to a coughing fit if I push......
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