I'm not sure what it is, but I'm waking up every morning with more bites. I would say it's mozzies, but we're a bit late in the season for them to suddenly appear and there's not much open water around here. I've been bug-spraying the bedroom each evening, and tonight I've gone to the extreme of closing the window before doing so. Fingers crossed ( Read more... )

I've just caught part of a programme on the World Service in which Peter White (a radio presenter who is blind) visits Kenya and, during his trip, gets to meet a giraffe ( Read more... )

Can I recommend The Ambridge Observer? And express (impressed) bogglement that the Helen Titchener Rescue Fund has raised £60k for Refuge ( Read more... )

Very, very sad, and deserving of celebration. Not sure it was worth a good 3/4 of PM, though. Margaret Hodge on Lin Homer was marvellous, though: she did *try* to start off being nice balanced, but then just went 'fuck it' and laid into her. Brilliant.

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I've been getting increasingly annoyed with the R4 Christmas trails: a collection of clips from Christmas programming, followed by the direction to check the R4 website for more details. The website doesn't have more details, as far as I can see, other than the full schedules. One of them was Dead Ringers doing The Reunion, and searching for Dead ( Read more... )

The sloes have been en-ginned:


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- Mike tells me that I was, loudly, editing a newsletter in my sleep last night ( Read more... )

Yesterday, it poured down all morning. On the plus side, the Aga Man came, and now my bum warmer is back in action. I suspect that, when he next comes to service it, we'll need to arrange to be busy doing other things: he charges by the hour, and never stopped talking (except possibly while he was using the vacuum cleaner. I couldn't be sure, ( Read more... )

I haven't even heard this week's R4 serial, having been in the field during the morning playing*. I haven't heard a trail, either ( Read more... )

This is rather good (available for anther three days):

The Letter of Last Resort is a hand-written letter from the Prime Minister to the commanding officer of each of Trident's submarines. It contains instruction on what action the commanding officer of the submarine should take in the event that Britain is obliterated by nuclear attack and all ( Read more... )