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Don't ya hate that when you discover that you've been saying something incorrectly for rather a long time ? In this case, I think since about 1998 whenever I've been describing to anyone the paroxysms of laughter I used to dissolve into whilst singing The Anvil Chorus with the Cantabile Singers, I've explained that we…
A better title for this might be “Fun with Wireless Broadband, Part 2”, but it's sort of relevant as-is. Saturday I decided to pop down into the city to go to a computer fair to pick up a new (working) ADSL modem, cos I wasn't gonna just sit by and have unusued bandwidth at the…
I do hope I don't sound like I'm always complaining about this place – I'm really enjoying being in the UK, and wouldn't have traded the decision to come over for anything (maybe for a dinosaur, but that's just a pipe dream)… But I tell you what, life seems to be needlessly comlicated over here,…
I've been trying to write something for the past few days, but when I'm at work I'm meant to be… well… WORKING, and when I get home I'm usually too knackered to put together a blog entry. Mind you that didn't stop me stayng up til 2am wiritng my six-monthly message to the folks back…
I think I've discovered the exact opposite to perpetual motion ! This morning I had to go to the mail depot to pick up a couple of parcels that nobody was home to receive (don't even get me started on how much I love the Royal Mail…), and on the way from the train station…
Wow, surreal day. I bought some Blu-tack the other day, and noticed an important difference (it's the little differences that mean so much) between the English way and the Australian way: ours comes in a long narrow pack, with about 5 or 6 long strips of the stuff. Here you get a short, squat pack,…
Now this is what's called “Reserve Storytelling” – I purposefully stayed home and didn't do much this weekend in order to be able to write about what I did LAST weekend. Cos that's the kind of considerate bloke I am. As I've probably only alluded to 15 or 16 times, last weekend I went to…
Stuck at home at the minute with a couple of wannabe plumbers banging around upstairs attempting to fix SOMETHING. I'd decided that the sort of “all-rounder odd jobs men” that you get here are on the whole pretty useless, because it seems to take them 80 times longer than a specialist to get anything done….
Well, England may be famously described as “a nation of shopkeepers”, but judging by the responses I've had lately it seems that Australia takes the title of “A nation of Plumbers” ! Thanks to all the useful suggestions of how to solve my washing up dilemma – next time the opportunity arises to do the…