My Blog

My Wordpress Blog

The Following

After The Walking Dead Series Three, I returned to The Following. This series had been much heralded – representing Kevin Bacon’s TV series debut. I really enjoy his work, so this had piqued my interest as did ...

by admin

Full Story »

Norfolk police – useless.

Ok, this is an interesting one. Today’s blog post is going to feature Norfolk police. If anyone has trouble remembering what police force that is, it’s the one where they attend a petrol station late at night, t...

by admin

Full Story »

Why I want Norwich relegated

It actually makes me sad to write this. And I will probably get slated. But I’m going to write it anyway. Everyone knows I am a Liverpool fan. Have been since I started following football at the age of ten. But so...

by admin

Full Story »

Think Bike? I think not!

There was a tragic accident recently on Magpie Road in Norwich. We do not know the full circumstances of the accident, but we do know that a motorcyclist and a pedestrian were involved and that the motorcyclist was tragically...

by admin

Full Story »

Norwich is snow joke

Well that was certainly the week that was! On Sunday night we had a suprising snowfall – surprising in that more fell than expected. That being said, there had probably been about an inch – maybe two. I made the...

by admin

Full Story »

Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough

Despite his age and fragility (or maybe because of it) Attenborough is busier than ever at the moment. Working at the forefront of 3D, and pushing the boundaries of the format (he is a pioneer along with Brian May) his work w...

by admin

Full Story »

Movies 2012 summed up

Well, I guess its that time of year when people look back on the past year and kind of sum it up. I have been pretty remiss in this blog. I haven’t kept up with my football posts (mainly, to be honest, ’cause I ...

by admin

Full Story »

Micah’s Surprise

I REALLY didn’t want to go round my sister’s for Christmas this year. I just wanted to stay at home, on my own. But then I thought about the fact that she was getting a Kindle, Micah Skylanders, and Rosie an MP3...

by admin

Full Story »

Star Trek : Into Darkness – The Poster Decoded

Very strange goings on indeed in the new teaser poster for the Star Trek sequel – Star Trek Into Darkness. The poster was made available on the official Star Trek facebook page, and my first view was that it was merely ...

by admin

Full Story »

Wii U – My view

On Friday, to a massive wave of indifference, Nintendo introduced the Wii U. And contrary to the launch of it’s predecessor (which was sold out for months post-launch) you can still easily buy consoles both online and i...

by admin

Full Story »

What “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds” means to me.

I’m gonna try not to bore here, and try not to annoy – but it’s a personal post so I cannot guarantee not to. This Thursday, just three sleeps away now, I am going to watch ”Jeff Waynes Musical Version ...

by admin

Full Story »

iOS to Android Part Two

So, once a friend had come round, played with the camera, was impressed, and then left I got to play with my phone a bit more. First task was to try and get contacts synced. This is what I was most worried about, as I have A ...

by admin

Full Story »

iOS to Android – part one

Ok – so first I need to get across just what a big deal has happened today. I have been an iPhone user since the iPhone 3G came out. I got lucky. I bought it when carphone warehouse was selling them for £50 and was...

by admin

Full Story »

Forest of Dean Day Two – Thursday 2nd August 2012

So, after a fairly fitful sleep (I was expecting better, but first night on an inflatable combined with that slope didn’t help) I woke to a fairly grey and miserable day. We went up to the lodge for a breakfast, and dis...

by admin

Full Story »

Forest of Dean Day One – Wednesday 1st August 2012

Day One of the holiday kicked off bright and early, with Dad arriving at my flat at 8:20am. We had already packed all the group stuff (tent, sleeping bags etc) the day before so all that remained was our personal stuff. I c...

by admin

Full Story »

New comments system added

Comments have been disabled these last few months, whilst I dealt with over one thousand spam comments. I have now overhauled the comments system. You no longer HAVE to be a registered user and logged in to make comments. �...

by admin

Full Story »

Adventures in Geocaching – June 2012

After three migraines in three days, the name of the day was to try and relax. It was a gorgeous day, so I headed out for a walk around one of my favourite haunts – Earlham Park. About halfway round I decided to check i...

by admin

Full Story »

My Knee (2)

So – another update on my knee. It is now, at the time of writing, coming up to five months since I injured it and I STILL haven’t seen a specialist. For the background – click on the “knee” or...

by admin

Full Story »

My Knee (1)

So after hurting my knee in an inoccuous football challenge back in February I finally got seen by a doctor this week. I have a whole history of knee problems. I was born with Oestreochondritis Dessicans (click for full de...

by admin

Full Story »

A Warning to those with Amazon UK accounts!

Worrying times today when I tried to log into my Amazon account, which I have had for years. I tried to log in and got the message “Your email address / password” is not recognised. I tried a few more times, as ...

by admin

Full Story »

Tupac resurrected at Coachella

For those who haven’t seen this yet, this morning’s “Times” newspaper drew my attention to this. At Coachella this year, they managed to resurrect Tupac Shakur who has been dead for years via modern te...

by admin

Full Story »

Adventures in Geocaching (1)

So, I headed out on my first solo geocaching trip today. The idea was to find at least one geocache – the first on my own. To this end, I caved in and bought the official £6.99 geocaching.com website app. I soon foun...

by admin

Full Story »

My job interview

So, due to downtime on my Blog I have had no chance to update since my job interview. They rang me at the allotted time and generally things went well. However, it became clear that I was rather out of touch with curriculum...

by admin

Full Story »

Time to get out.

I made a big decision today. I decided the time has come to get the hell out of Norwich. I’ve been here a frightening five years now, thats a hell of a lot longer than I’ve stayed anywhere else. I can feel the...

by admin

Full Story »

The Apple Store queuing experience

So, I did something I always swore I never would do today. I queued outside an Apple Store for a product launch. The funny thing is – people think that I am an absolute Apple nut – but I am really not. I admired...

by admin

Full Story »

Respect the Norwich War Memorial!

Today I am starting a campaign – but it can only be successful with your help! I could end up looking like a complete plonker here but I don’t care because I passionately care about this cause, and I hope you do t...

by admin

Full Story »

The power of movies – through the eyes of a child

Today, as explained in the introductory paragraph of this review - we showed Rosie Stand By Me for the first time. My reservations were well documented but it turned out to be a fantastic experience. Sometimes I wish I could...

by admin

Full Story »

Star Trek London teased

This site suddenly appeared on the internet to not exactly feverish speculation. However, I for one am excited because I am fairly sure what it will be. I am absolutely, 100% not interested in any convention or anything li...

by admin

Full Story »

Detached Retina (2)

So now that my vision is better, I can ramp this series up a bit. To read the whole series, just click on the Tag “Detached Retina” above and that will list all articles. When I left you last time, I had just been...

by admin

Full Story »

Detached Retina (1)

This blog will be worked on over several days ’cause at the moment I can only really sit at a computer and type for a very short period of time. The extended bright white space hurts my eyes. However, I want to tell t...

by admin

Full Story »

Benefit cap defeated

So today the Government unbelievably lost their attempt to cap benefits to £26,000 a year. Let’s just stop and think about this a second. £26,000 a year. Remember, benefit isn’t taxed. So that is income in...

by admin

Full Story »

downtime : apologies

Just a quick apology for the downtime over the past couple of days – it was down to my bandwidth cap being exceeded. Quite a surprise to be honest – I’ll need to get to the bottom of what is going on by anal...

by admin

Full Story »

Spellathon update – 15th January 2012

A quick spellathon update for you…. I have currently ticked off 313 words off my total of 2000. I have raised £25 out of the £30 target that they set (although it would be great if I could go over the target). �...

by admin

Full Story »

Quick spellathon update – 12th January 2012

A quick spellathon update for you…. I have currently ticked off 256 words off my total of 2000. I have raised £20 out of the £30 target that they set (although it would be great if I could go over the target). Ma...

by admin

Full Story »

Spellathon Update

A quick spellathon update for you…. I have currently ticked off 131 words off my total of 2000. I have raised £20 out of the £30 target that they set (although it would be great if I could go over the target). ...

by admin

Full Story »

Spellathon – introduction

I have signed up to take part in spellathon - a global spelling event involving Stephen Fry in aid of the charity Mencap. Basically you download an app for your phone, and you pledge to spell a certain number of words correc...

by admin

Full Story »

First Busses – Appalling customer service

I am normally reticent about criticising First Busses – they usually offer a pretty good service, and for a City the size of Norwich we have a very comprehensive service. Yes – things do go wrong occasionally but ...

by admin

Full Story »

Counselling – first session

So, I turned up at the appointed time to West Pottergate health centre and was called in for my half hour appointment. I finally left an hour and 10 minutes later. I have to say that I have some awful stereotypes and fixation...

by admin

Full Story »

Why I am absolutely dreading tomorrow (counselling, part one)

hether there will be a second one, I don’t know….we will see. Anyway – tomorrow at 1:30pm I have my first appointment with the “Wellbeing Service” locally here in Norwich. I absolutely adore the ...

by admin

Full Story »

Seal watching at Horsey – 29th December 2011 (photos)

On 29th December 2011, after a tip off from Dad, myself, Marie, Samuel, Joseph, Keith, Micah and Rosie all headed off to Horsey as seals were breeding there and were thus on the beach. Baby seals cannot go in the water as the...

by admin

Full Story »

Neverland Part Two

inally, after struggling for most of the Christmas period, we got round to watching the second part of this special Sky movie. Samuel (who wasn’t interested in watching the second part) took himself off to bed, and myse...

by admin

Full Story »

Apple TV Bought

Despite my allegiance to the wonderful iPhone and iPad I have never had anything else Apple in my home – and when looking at streaming a few years ago I decided to go down the squeezebox route. However, when recently de...

by admin

Full Story »

Billy Joel Piano Man – Legacy edition

Another much desired for christmas gift was this, Billy Joel : Piano Man (Legacy Edition). This is the second one of his albums to be released as a Legacy edition after The Stranger. And like that album, it features a live ...

by admin

Full Story »

Two new 3DS games bought

I wasn’t meant to be shopping for myself. It was December 23rd and I was Christmas shopping for others. But I was cold, soaking wet, and knackered and when I saw these two bargains in GAME ( I had been looking to get ...

by admin

Full Story »

Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3D and Fiddler on the Roof 40th anniversary

I was lucky enough to get two new Blu-rays for Christmas, both of which are top notch titles. Perhaps these two, more than anything, represent the eclectic nature of my collection. The first was from Marie, and is The Voyage ...

by admin

Full Story »

Christmas Eve visit to Grave (with video and pics)

Marie very sweetly asked me if I could take her to visit Mum’s grave on Christmas Eve which, of course, I was very pleased to do. We took the boys and headed up there about 10:30am and Marie brought some lovely flowers....

by admin

Full Story »

The Lion King – 21st December 2011

The much awaited day of Rosie’s Christmas present arrived – Wednesday 21st December 2011 and her first trip to a London musical. The Lion King at The Lyceum theatre. I, of course, had seen it a rather sad three ...

by admin

Full Story »

Moving tributes to Ga-Ga

I got a call mid morning today mentioning that Victoria, the kids and Dad were heading up to the grave to visit Mum. Myself and Marie are planning to go on Christmas Eve, but I took the chance to go with them today. When we g...

by admin

Full Story »

New site up – but work to do!

So as you can see if you are looking round the site at the moment, the new theme is in place but there is still a LOT of work to do. My early estimation of being ready today has been way off beam (mainly due to other things t...

by admin

Full Story »

May 2013
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Feb
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

Blogroll

Calendar of Posts

Flickr Photos