Category: old blogging

Be warned. I’m slightly tetchy this morning. One or two things don’t seem to be going my way.
Meanwhile, although it may be less hot that it was, it’s still too hot (obligatory blog content about the weather).

Ok, now I’m annoyed. My new white trousers that I purchased in Sacramento (that were not inexpensive, I might add) have lost a button in the washing machine on only their second wash. I can’t find it in the drum or in the lint trap, and I know it was there when they went in as I made a point of doing the button up to hold the top of the trousers together. Fortunately, they came with a spare, but even so. Grrr.

Me? King of one line posting? As if! 🙂

Biggup to my lovely friend Penn, who is going away to Nepal in a few weeks to teach English for a charity working there. Wow! She’ll be looking for donations for the charity too – details when I get them.

There has been a fair bit of discussion recently about an article that was posted on the BBC website by Bill Thompson. I thought it was rubbish, and regurgitated arguments that we’ve all heard since …. well, I’m sure they were around a week after the first "blog" was called that.
Anyway, go take a look at what Tom writes on the subject, and also the (mostly) valuable comment discussion that follows from his piece. I think I agree with pretty much all that is said there.

Steve Coppell, Brighton and Hove Albion’s manager, just had this to say on BBC South in advance of tonight’s first round Carling Cup match against Third Division Bristol City:

Well, that might be true Steve, and we know the club needs the money to fight its planning battles for the new stadium, but is that the sort of pep talk that the players and fans want to hear?
Actually, I think all that does is raise the question of just how much desire Coppell has to stay with the team. We need him more than he needs us.

Karen and Pete had a mainly justified gripe over at their site about things that make blogging content bad. I’ll admit to being occasionally (often?) guilty of the first two. In the case of the first (unexplained links), I’m going to endeavour to include at least a little information about the links I post here, although you may need to mouseover to get it. In the case of the second (listing all the people I’ve seen in the pub, or wherever), I’ll carry on as before, as that is an integral part of this site and I think I’d get complaints from some readers (namely those who are named). Besides, this site is partly a personal (if public) diary, and I include those minutiae for my own benefit as much as for you lot.
So there. I’ve justified the continuing bad content here.

How handy.

Top marks to the Dutch railways for having the best online timetable and fares query service I’ve ever seen.

I hear through the Gregvine that Wendy is not well. So, biggup to Wendy – we’re all thinking about you. And whilst you’re ailing, make sure that idle bloke you hang around with is doing the housework, ok?