Big and Small have both been playing on Buildabearville (the online marketing and promotion channel for those tacky make your own cuddly toy shops). Today, (after just one failed attempt), they have managed to get their characters to communicate. This is, apparently, immensely exciting. 😐 Next stop MPRPGs. 🙁
General
Something about Geograph
A lot of you know that I am a map nut and am very into the Geograph site. (FWIW, it is fascinating, brilliant, a contribution to the historical record of the British Isles for posterity, and sometimes, as in the photo by Keith Evans above, very amusing). I have been meaning to blog that this […]
And now, over to Bradford
Just had a lovely weekend visit from Marcus and Michelle. We visited Jorvik on Saturday. Which I thought was very disappointing. I have heard so much about it, but I am afraid I thought it was little more than a poor fairground ride coupled with a mediocre museum and a high price. However, the children […]
So tell me
Bearing in mind the number of DVDs, CDs, Audiobooks, Sonic Screwdrivers and other branded tat, the overseas TV shows and so on and on which the BBC flog. How come we still have to pay a licence fee?
Gunpowder, treason and plot
From Sign Language at The Telegraph
Three Degrees
Three degrees outside. Winter draws on. 🙂
Birmingham pub blasts kill 21
21st November 1974 Bombs have devastated two central Birmingham pubs, killing 19* people and injuring over 180. Police have said they believe the Provisional IRA planted the devices in the Mulberry Bush and the nearby Tavern in the Town. The two blasts were only seconds apart and happened at about 2030 GMT, when the bars […]
I Am Happy
The Government says so. Also, I am wetting myself with excitement at the prospect of having to have an ID card. Like Jacqui Smith says “I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don’t want to wait that long.” Well, that’s me, I just can’t wait. Heck, of course I’m happy, interest […]
Feeding Time
Daddy, how are there two Doctor Whos?
Lost In Translation
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” BBC You know, I have always thought having road signs […]