I went to a couple of concerts at King's Place near King's Cross in London yesterday.  I'd booked the tickets over the internet some weeks ago and thought they were going to post them to me but when they hadn't arrived on Friday I phoned the box office and was told to pick them up before the concert.  That's the second time in a row that this has ( Read more... )

I've just arrived in Cologne, the  first stage in my journey to Archipelicon this weekend ( Read more... )

So I was chopping back the vegetation that was encroaching on the path in my back garden when something thin and black moved beneath my shears.  I had just chopped through a cable connecting my Sky satellite dish to the box ( Read more... )

I like this:

http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2014/6/8

Last week, the man who invented the computer mouse, this week, the man who designed the Trabant ( Read more... )

So I ordered a new fridge freezer on Wednesday, and for a few extra ( Read more... )

Having breakfast this morning and the milk on my cereal was not cold.  Checked the fridge and it's at room temperature ( Read more... )

My main computer wouldn't boot up this morning.  Looks like a power supply problem, but phoned the service company and it won't be fixed till next week.  Have to make do with the laptop till then ( Read more... )

Received a letter from Thames Water today suggesting it might be worth my while having a water meter fitted. Based on the figures in a table in the letter - one occupant of the house, occasional use of washing machine (well, twice a week), baths etc., I should save £100-£150 a year on my current £330 annual bill ( Read more... )

I was listening to the radio this morning but the TV was on with the sound off showing the BBC news channel as I'd been looking at the headlines.  A home video clip caught my attention.  Not wanting a voice speaking over the extract from Mahler's 2nd symphony that was playing, I switched on the subtitles for the deaf and wound the programme back to ( Read more... )