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Big news of the day (well, during “drive-time”) is that former boxer and renowned knobhead Chris Eubank was arrested for driving a truck slowly around Parliament Square. Or for parking it, something like that.
As you can see from this pic that I thieved from the BBC, his truck had a slogan on the back.

It says [...]

I’ve been going back over my posts over the last week or so, as I’m starting to migrate my archives away from typepad (cost). Man, I used to write a lot. I used to go to exhibitions and write huge responses on how the art made me feel. There are long rambling posts about television, [...]

One day, one day, I may finally get around to writing about the other people I caught up with (almost) at the Brum con. For instance, Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvies entertaining Britpop homage, Phonogram, is worth a look, if you can find it on the bloody shelves anywhere. Meanwhile, there’s a dark sinister quality [...]

I’ve not been not blogging. I’ve just not been blogging. I know I’ve said this before.
However, Rol has finally finished his website, which does have a blog, and somewhere within that blog he puts me to shame by having a specially annotated ‘Best Of’ for 2006. I, on the other hand, have nothing, the [...]

I did have a marvellous plan that I could take a picture of the pothole, and then I could report on the progress on this very site. But the Council scuppered that plan by filling it in the next day. As I said before, I suspect they already knew about it.
On the downside, the [...]

In a civic-minded mood for the New Year, I resolved (see what I did there) on the way into work, that I would try and find out who was responsible for maintenance of the roads, and report to them the gigantic pothole that has sprung up around the corner.
So, shortly after nine-ish, I started digging [...]

And so to Christmas, which involved lots of giving and receiving of presents, the cooking and eating of a splendid Christmas meal, visits to family to see over-excited children opening presents, and on Boxing Day, we took Jerry out for a nice long walk around the Country Park, and came back an hour and a [...]

Friday evening, after work, I’m doing a spot of last-minute present buying in my local branch of Lush. I’m at the till, getting served, when an assistant decides to open up the middle till, even though it doesn’t have a credit card attachment.
"Is anybody not using a card?" she shouts in the general direction [...]

Shamelessly filched from Jamie Smart

In which I observe that although my results letter from the OU has yet to arrive, the online page has been updated, and I am relieved to note that I did pass this years course, and I now sort-of have two of the building blocks upon which to base an eventual degree (hope).
Only four [...]