I pick up a copy of the Metro each weekday morning as I make my way to platform two of Slough station. I tend to give the freesheet a quick browse but do not get time to do more than skim some articles. My train journey is only fifteen minutes and although I used to […]
The One & Only
Being a creature of routine, I have very much settled into my new morning ritual. From January, I decided to get into work as early as humanly possible (being able to leave work early does sweeten the deal somewhat). This meant a change from catching the 07:04 train from Slough to the earlier service at […]
Calling All Cars
My favourite character from The Simpsons is the local police chief. I like the idea that power corrupts and that the obese policeman would rather eat doughnuts and decipher magic eye prints to avoid any real police. “This is 912! Wrong number!”
The Power Of A Response
Back at work on a Monday morning is never a great place to be! Why oh why do weekends go by so quickly! However a quick tweet on Twitter can change all that! When I saw Anil Kapoor in the audience at the BAFTA Awards ceremony last night at the Royal Opera House, I explained […]
Jeffster!
Way back in 2008, I saw a trailer for a new TV show to be screened on Virgin 1. (The TV channel is no more, finally dying after a small period resurrected as Channel One (Virgin would not give away their trademark to Sky plus there was a conflict of interest with their cable offering). […]
Goodbye XBMC! You shall be missed!
I had never heard of the Freecycle online service, although I knew some sort of community based on giving away your old items existed. It was my sister, Samantha that mentioned the website to me back in April. I had just moved into my flat in Slough and had an old TV combi unit to […]
Primetime Karaoke
At times I wonder why I get sucked into the bandwagon that is The X Factor. If you strip the television show down (sometimes we need to remind ourselves it is just a television programme), it is purely glorified karaoke on a Saturday evening. Instead of an audience of a few hundred in the pub […]
Heroine Worship
I got back to my flat late on Monday evening (around 9:30pm) to find a letter in my postbox with a South East London postmark. I knew what is was already but waited until I got into my flat, sat down and switched on the television before opening. Those lovely people at Daybreak had sent […]
Forever Young
After almost four years, one of my favourite shows came to a end on Monday but of course, being in the UK, I had to wait until the following day to catch up on how life ends for a group of students at fictional Cyprus Rhodes University. However, before I go into the review of […]
Even The Principal Is A Hero
Iqbal Theba is somewhat of a hero of mine! Let me clarify this by making that a small-time television hero, not the super street fighting kind. He starred in a handful of episodes of Sister, Sister, with the classic line, “This is AMERICA! Everything is for SALE!”. However, he has outdone himself as Principal Figgins […]