Went to this last night with some friends at the Hippodrome. Whilst the fantastically bodies and named Brett Pfister wasn't performing, David O'Mer replaced him, which was also good.
I can say that I've never laughed so much in my life as at Captain Frodo :) And there is also the friend-of-a-friend that does an interesting vanishing and reappearing act!
You totally have to go :)
Um ok:
Is this a good or bad thing? I think good :)
Not only does it have a funny name, but they suggest that you "Drink Yourself Happy"...
The DROA are at it again and I'm the lucky recipient :)
For more information take a look at http://www.synuk.com/droa/ but definitely don't sign up with them!
I'm half tempted to stake out MBE on Gloucester Road to see if anyone picks up the mail, but I assume it's just a forwarding operation. Scum.
Leaving aside the awful Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee PC I really like the Aiguru S2. It will certainly go well with the as-yet-unreleased Essentio CS5110 which I'm rather drawn to as a new HTPC and Blu-Ray player.
I passed a very well built sliproad on the M4 just before J13 today. What really caught my eye was the trusty enigmatic sign "Works Unit Only" albeit done in the military red pattern.
A quick check on Live Maps found me my sliproad - following it up the hill reveals RAF Welford, the largest munitions dump in Europe (apparently).
Cool :)
I'm so glad that Skins is coming back to E4 in a couple of weeks. I'm even happier that the first episode features Maxxie, whose Dad is played by Bill Bailey. Can't wait :)
A cheap, but very cool way of building stairs out of some square packing cases set at angles. When I build my own house, I'll be doing this.
This, frankly, is the coolest thing ever: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=728920
The result?
Well, yes!
Let's assume first of all that you commute to and from work twice 5 days a week, from Zone 2 to Zone 1.
From 2008, a monthly 1-2 travelcard will cost you £93 [1]. A single pay as you go ticket (on Oyster) will cost you £2 [1] (assuming you're travelling peak hours).
So:
£2 x twice per day x 5 days per week x 4 weeks = £80
Ah-ha I hear you cry, but surely if you account for the fact that people travel at the weekend too, the monthly travelcard will pay for itself? I guess it does, but for some people it's a lot cheaper not to buy a travelcard but I don't remember it ever used to be quite this cut and dry. It's even more obvious now that travelcard rates have gone up, buy PAYG hasn't.
Do the sums kids (or ride a bike!)...
[1] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/guide-to-fares-and-tickets-08-01-02.pdf
How odd - when searching for "GMF" (I wondered who they were as they sponsor the Rugby World Cup) on Google - you get this:
Click for biggerer
Interestingly, you get the same error if you use google.co.uk where the DMCA doesn't apply...
(Written on the side of a barrel lift at a pub)
A travesty of eurovision-block-voting justice. Bah.
The kind that jumps off your bedside table and hides somewhere so you're forced to get out of bed to turn its bleeping off...
