This story from the Leamington Courier, about vacant shops in Leamington got my attention. Bath Street is on our walk into the town centre, and the vacant commercial properties are conspicuous and long-standing. Regent Street ought to be a high-end commercial street, and the the vacant properties on the East end do let it […]
Jim and I went to the Spa Centre cinema — on what turned out to be cheap ticket night — to see Forest Whitaker be Idi Amin in Last King of Scotland.
Debbie didn’t fancy it, so I went while she was teaching an evening class. Her loss though. She came home to some homemade […]
We watched two films this weekend.
Crank is High Concept: hitman Jason Statham has been poisoned, and the only way he can stay alive long enough to exact revenge is to keep his adrenaline level up by whatever means necessary.
It’s ridiculous — it’s as if the script was written by a load of drunks, and […]
A packed weekend!
Saturday morning was reasonably relaxed, admittedly, which is a good thing because the guest IPA at the Jug for our Happy Friday visit was made of rocket fuel or something.
Leamington were entertaining Retford United for an FA Vase match. Because of the anticipated large crowds, we used the park and ride facility. […]
Normally, people like to moan publically about bad customer service, but don’t talk about satisfactory service. I thought I’d recount my experience when my Canon camera broke within the warranty period.
It’s a Canon S80, and while we were on Paul’s 40th birthday canal jaunt, it hit the dreaded E18 error — this is where […]
Last Wednesday Debbie and I braved the threat of snow to drive up to Nottingham to see The Decemberists at Trent University students’ union.
In the morning, I had cleverly put the tickets in my laptop bag, so I couldn’t possibly forget to take them to work. Then, when Debbie picked me up from work, […]
This CNN story and this BBC story both tell how Mikhail Gorbachev has asked Bill Gates to intervene in a software piracy prosecution in Russia.
Apparently the headmaster involved could be sent to “a Siberian Prison camp”.
There’s a phrase with connotations. We are invited to imagine ourselves as white collar criminals chained up in unheated […]
Starting when we were students at Aston, and continuing after we graduated and still lived in Birmingham, we frequented a comedy night called the GAG Club. The GAG Club is not to be confused with the Glee Club. The Glee Club is a corporate hospitality provider with comedians. The GAG Club was a weekly […]
After last year’s enjoyable evening in the company of Godfrey Salter and his Invisible Ducks, I was pleased to see the return of the Flatpack Film Festival. On Friday, this year’s equivalent event was entitled “Hocus Focus”, and promised an odd Czech dream-onset-of-puberty-witch-vampire film, some live music and, er, more.
I invited the Happy Friday […]
In order to qualify for a ticket to this year’s Glastonbury Festival, you have to pre-register, providing some lightweight personal details and a photograph. You can either do this using a Web site, or in person at Millet’s shops.
My understanding is that the ticketholder’s photograph will be printed on each ticket. The purpose […]