Mr Postman has just delivered me a box full of non-broken bottles of liquid yumminess. They look rather like this:

( Wine, wine, wine... )

It was one of those moments of extreme Windows Media Player coincidence. I had it set on shuffle, and Richard Thompson was playing, from his very wonderful 1000 Yeas of Popular Music live album, about which the least you can say is that it's eclectic. (All the way from Sumer Is Icumen In to Oops! I Did It Again.) He finished one song, and did a bit ( Read more... )

She made me go to Youtube. She did! Not fair! I had other things I should have been doing with my day ( Read more... )

One of the very best times to go to the supermarket is half an hour before the Eurovision Song Contest starts. The place is almost empty, because it's a Saturday night and everybody's already either gone out on the town for the evening or toddled off to their Eurovision parties. Though it would have been really helpful, if having broken all speed ( Read more... )

Looking for a handy CD case that would hold half a dozen CDs to take to work today, I pulled out the little leather folder that came with my car. It's too small for a car CD collection, which is why it's tucked away on a CD shelf, but it was about right for my needs today ( Read more... )