Following on from my earlier post, I have 'inherited' a box of sheet music, mostly for the piano. Since it's been years since I've been near a piano (and I was pants at it, to be fair) I don't know what to do with it ( Read more... )

( Have you ever heard the third verse of The Teddy Bears Picnic? )

We will be paying for ISPs to keep records of our internet activity for a year, so the Government can have access to them.

I have read that correctly, right?
Because it seems astonishing. Sneaky, sneaky.

(NB: I've included clickable links just in case anyone's interested, but they're not important to this post).

One of the rolling news stories on the front page today:

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BBC SORRY OVER TEETH JIBE
The BBC has apologised to Grand National Winner Liam Treadwell after presenter Claire Balding made fun of his teeth.
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Mark Thomas thinks he's got his DNA and fingerprints deleted from the national database.There are wider issues here about the collecting and linking of (accurate?) information. And leaving datasticks etc. on trains ( Read more... )

I'm sosososo glad it's back!
"We will take your case at the full unhappy-dog fee."
My faith in good writing/acting has been reaffirmed! So damn quotable.
Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose...I think these two could be my heroines. It's like Morse and Lewis* only these ladies properly make me laugh...
I adore crime writing, you know this, but the No.1 ( Read more... )

I saw the first baby lambs yesterday. They looked so clean, like they'd been through a washing machine.
I also saw a cockerel trying to balance on a tennis net.

After a Winter of shop-bought, I saw the farm over the road had the sign up for their eggs for the first time this year. Free-range it says, and if you go over the field at the side you can see the hens doing, well, whatever it is hens do in the wild. There's a bit of an orchard and a little copse for them to scratch about it. £1.20 per half ( Read more... )

I couldn't get past the first 40 minutes of RedRiding. I usually find it easy to get into grim/gritty/dark, but the relentless doom and gloom was just too much. I also lost the plot.

( I'm getting properly concerned about Channel 4. )

REDRIDING looks so good.

Really, really hope it isn't a case of style over substance because LOOK AT THAT CAST!! I don't know how to classify it, even - hard to tell from the descriptions I've read. Gritty? Stronger than that, I think.
I haven't found a drama I can properly get my teeth into for ages. I'm nearly melting away in anticipation ( Read more... )