Category: General / Misc.
Listening to …
It’s been a musical afternoon with several plays of Elbow’s A Seldom Seen Kid, some Muse, some Turin Brakes and other assorted tunes. But the album of the day Foals – Antidotes I m... Read More
Reply from Ed Vaizey re: Axe the Beer Tax campaign
I’m impressed – Ed Vaizey MP has replied to my Axe the Beer tax email already! Here’s my original email (auto generated by the site), his reply and my response: Dear Edward Vaizey, I... Read More
Axe the Beer Tax – Axe the Tax
Nice to see my magazine got a head start on something that has become a national campaign 😉 I ran a feature in the January issue about The King and Queen pub in Longcot, Oxon. Having been empty for... Read More
Listening to …
I The Race – In My Head It Works The Race are most definitely my favourite band at the moment. They’re from Reading and In My Head It Works is their second album and was out on Monday (tho... Read More
Listening to …
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular I’ve heard this band’s name mentioned so many times but only knew one song by them, Time to Pretend – though having listened to the album now I also... Read More
Listening to …
This originally started an an album a day post, but I soon ran out of steam …. so thought I’d edit it to just pick up on some of the highlights of my CD collection. Feel free to recommend ... Read More
The Teenager Audio Test – Can you hear this sound? Created by Train Horns
The Teenager Audio Test – Can you hear this sound? Created by Train Horns Created by Train Horns... Read More
Win a wedding!!
I’m running an amazing competition in the March issue of my magazine, CT In The Vale* – the prize is an entire wedding worth over £15,000! More details of the prize are available here or ... Read More
Gym Sunday 26th october
Sundays there’s an hour when kids can go in to the gym so the three of us went in. Luckily Katie and Dan were fairly sensible so I was able to do pretty much the whole CV programme, plus a coupl... Read More
First proper workout Fri 24th October
My first “proper” go in the gym, squeezed in while Dan was at footie training. I did the cardiovascular programme and it went like this: Treadmill – 10 mins at 5.5km/hr, gradient 5I ... Read More
Gym progress – start at the beginning
I’ve recently won three months gym membership and as this is my best opportunity ever of losing weight and getting fit, I’m going to do the best I can! Thought I’d plot my progress h... Read More
Paddington gets second helping of Marmite in new TV ad | Media | guardian.co.uk
Paddington and Marmite … it’s just wrong. Paddington gets second helping of Marmite in new TV ad | Media | guardian.co.uk... Read More
Clegg's conference speech
BBC NEWS | Politics | LIVE – Clegg's conference speech I rather enjoyed Nick Clegg’s speech, but wish he’d gone further on taxes. His comment on reducing the tax burden for 9 out... Read More