If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It seems the BBC’s competitions and editing debacle is either more extensive or more embarrassing than we thought, as Director General Mark Thompson has suspended all competitions on its broadcast services - both radio and TV.
I suppose it’s too [...]

I’m worries about the beans. They’ve been going great guns, and have so far provided enough veg for five meals. I’m worried about the lack of new growth, though, and in particular the lack of new flowers on the French bean plants, which are starting to look less like veggie vines, and more like an [...]

‘BBC faces fresh deception rows,’ says the Guardian. How shocking. What’s been going on? Has Huw Edwards been fibbing on the ten o’clock news? Has Watchdog been scare-mongering? Has Crimewatch been making up photo-fit pictures of imaginary criminals.
Nope - none of those.
It turns out someone may (or may not) have edited some Flog It! footage [...]

So I got sent these scary Princess Jelly Lollipops. The tag on the bag says Disney Store, and they’re surprisingly tasty (also suitable for vegetarians, from reading the label).
But why, why, why would you send these to announce the release of a high-end enterprise level database?
The mind boggles.
So do the eyes.

Potato blight?
I think my potatoes might have blight. The leaves of one crop are starting to turn a bit brown, which I had assumed was down to the hot weather we’ve been having drying them out. A quick hunt around online, and a look through the excellent Grow Your Own Veg, which has become something [...]

Just when you think things are (almost) going according to plan, something crops up to throw the cliched spanner in the works.
That ’something’ was a call, late afternoon, from the plumber, who has got about half way around the bathroom with the new, small square tiles. Seems it doesn’t matter whether you buy all the [...]

Things are plodding along quite happily, as they have been for the last three months, although this week they have certainly taken a turn for the better.
The bathroom is finally being worked on, and although the price has leapt from somewhere in the region of £2500 to £7500 for just one room - fixtures and [...]

Well here we go. This was the book that made me laugh out loud on the train, and subjected me to the hard and withering glances of my fellow travellers. And now it’s finished.
Up until about half way through there was not a shred of doubt in my mind that if I was grading it, [...]

The most pointless blog post ever? Perhaps. But it’s only here because it’s 07:07 and 07 seconds in the morning on 07/07/07.
That will be all, thank you.

See these brown jeans? Same ones as yesterday, you see.
How lovely it is to be able to go out for the night and not come home smelling of second-hand smoke. The ban came into force on Sunday, bringing England into line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and outlawing smoking in enclosed public spaces (and [...]