Journal Entries
Chas & Dave AND The Wurzels...
Posted Feb 12, 2007
On Friday I interviewed Chas Hodges (as in Chas & Dave) over the phone and later on I met two of the Wurzels who'd come in to the Taunton studio to be interviewed down the line by Five Live.
To put it in football terms, I'm sure this must count as some sort of unlikely musical 'double' and I'm wondering what my trophy is and how I claim it.
The interview should be up on the BBC Somerset website in the near future...
Discuss this Journal entry [12]
Latest reply: Feb 12, 2007
Impending Upheaval
Posted Jan 23, 2007
I've bought a flat. Of my own. With actual money.
I hope to exchange contracts and complete the deal by the end of the week and move into it on Saturday.
Spent the weekend and the three days that preceded it packing - and going through all my clobber and throwing out a LOT of stuff. A lot of which had some sort of emotional attachment one way or the other, or was stuff I was hoping to get round to, but basically was just cluttering up my life and holding me back.
I feel sort of cleansed now.
Although apprehensive about the move.
Discuss this Journal entry [57]
Latest reply: Jan 23, 2007
Something that just sprang to mind...
Posted Nov 19, 2006
A joke in quite poor taste. Somebody in the 70s must surely have thought of it at some point, but I'm pretty certain no-one's ever told it to me. So as far as I'm concerned, it's an original!
What d'you call a group of legless Anglo-German terrorists?
The Douglas Baader-Meinhof Gang.
Discuss this Journal entry [3]
Latest reply: Nov 19, 2006
Wobbling
Posted Nov 17, 2006
As I've alluded to elsewhere, I'm being assailed by doubts about being in Somerset at the moment. I get the feeling part of me is rejecting being transplanted from here from London.
I miss the cosmopolitan-ness of London. The ability to invent your own city just by taking your pick of everything that's out there, rather than being forced to work within the confines of what you've got locally. And socially speaking, Somerset's a strange place to be for a single 31 year-old...
Everyone that doesn't leave and go to University seems to end up mating and/or pairing off before they hit 25. I'm starting to wonder whether I'll ever meet a suitably eligible bachelorette down here, never mind whether she'll like me or not. Yet if I'm here and having these doubts, there must be women out there feeling roughly the same thing.
There are still lots of pluses. But I came down here only seeing the good things about having done so, and now I'm realising what the minuses were. Although to be honest, it feels a lot like my first year at University, when I expected everything to be wonderful from the word 'go' and in fact it was a bit bleak once the initial euphoria started to wear off - but great things did happen in the end there.
Discuss this Journal entry [19]
Latest reply: Nov 17, 2006
Busted bread maker
Posted Nov 15, 2006
I'm baffled. My trusty Morphy Richards breadmaker seems to have given up the ghost. On Monday it was working, yesterday I plugged it in and it failed to give its usual beep and the digital display didn't function.
I've tried all the usual things like checking the plug, testing the fuse, and unscrewing the top to have a quick look but nothing seems to be obviously amiss.
And nothing has happened to it between now and last time I used it. It's a mystery. Any thoughts, anyone?
This is quite vexing. For years I didn't use it, it being too much faff with mixing the flour, yeast, butter, salt etc. But recently I've discovered some great bread mixes at Lidl (of all places) that you just mix with water. So it's been back in use for a good month now - until it did this.
Discuss this Journal entry [16]
Latest reply: Nov 15, 2006
Number Six
Researcher U115522
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."