Blimey Guv'nor, its the Great London Skyline

Maybe I am being rude, but the mish mash of spikes and spokes as I look out across the London skyline makes me think of the dust mounds of Little Dorritt....





2 new sites "The Shard" - yet another prestige building centre left, and the Olympic Stadium, far left...
Is that The Eye, The Umbrella, or the Bike Frame?
And somehow the stadium looks like a debtors prison.....

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Location:Primrose Hill, London

Oops - Still Broke (17th Feb 2012)

Lift at Manchester Airport...
... Yes, the same 1...

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They got me...

and I thought I was sick of these ads...
 

Best deal was Marks & Spencers actually!!
Seriously, now the supermarkets are doing insurance, is this good or bad?

Seriously though, are we going to get a sensible review of the insurance companies unbridled power over the motorist?

RAC report of govt review of car insurance
Manchester's key 103 radio report
Guardian's report

I truly hope so - haven't you noticed over the years how searches for insurance have started to include more and more 'granular' details for their information - e.g.

• annual mileage has been broken into segments by the thousand
• no claims used to be up to 5, now its by year from 1 to 9, 15, more depending on the insurance company - how can you provide evidence for over so many years when the insurance companies didn't record that many years pin the past? 
• the excess is no broken into voluntary, compulsory, for windscreen, some other things I didn't catch
• phone quotes force you to listen to all the extras, even when you specifically say no extras.

And the cost now.... a 13 year old 2.0litre car with alarm and immobiliser, with a driver who had a license for over 20 years, no claims, no points, over £1100....?!?

So where is the money coming from for so many new drivers buying expensive cars round where I live?

I mean, they must be new...

Back to basics

Train from Manchester airport to Lime St Liverpool reminds me of the really basic transit with frame seats bolted into the floor. Guess I won't be charging my laptop then...




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What doesn't work today - 2012-01-30

So far:
2 conveyor walkways from the train...
the lift from the train station...
A lift down to terminal 3...



An escalator up to t3 departures




Poor old Peel Holdings, they must really be feeling the pinch...

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What doesn't work today - 2012-01-30

So far:
2 conveyor walkways from the train...
the lift from the train station...
A lift down to terminal 3...



An escalator up to t3 departures




Poor old Peel Holdings, they must really be feeling the pinch...

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Solar Panelled Electric top-up

Go to Kilo Whats blog on energy and transport

There's Something Wrong about this

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November

The brown leaves wet

Were crisp, now damp slip. Fire

Glows deep within its child.

Living statue deserves to be writ in stone!

This one is original, contextually spot on, and just cuts the mustard!

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Festival of Speed

The Premier petrol head event of UK

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Window lickin goood

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JOBSWORTH

OK - maybe I am a little late for some in saying this, but its time I started the Jobsworth chronicles, for all those crappy things about Apple that make me know its time other companies did something halfway to scratch.

Take a Bite!

We need a Big Bad Apple blog, not because I think they are, but because we should be aware of the alternatives!  Isn't this why we shunned Microsoft?




Now what to call it?

1. The Big Bad Apple, or
2. The Jobsworth Chronicles?

Park inn Antwerp pedestrian wifi

Try broadband speed test

BBC Ageist? You must be Working my Lunch

Well well well, Moira My Stuarts!! Have the BBC done it again?

They just announced they are axing Working Lunch, the link for which I Googled and couldn't find as a BBC News link (so much for balanced), which they also concede has a core audience of retired folks, currently at around 300,000.

Well, I also watch Working Lunch, and I have to admit not as much as I should BUT, frankly it is an interesting and well constructed program, which features articles in an accessible and concise way that I don't see anywhere else, and has a format that welcomes its viewers into the parlour.

So why should we have to watch a channel of predominantly journalistic content and all its current day banality and patronising presentation, when what we really want is an information program away from the journo-packaged conveyor belt that presents itself as an interest program, WORKING LUNCH!

Is this yet again the ongoing (denied) BBC policy of trimming off the quartiles to bland in, sorry, blend in the programming to suit a notional interquartile age and interest range?

And what about the unemployed entrepreneur, or the lunchtime tv at work?

England World Cup Bid 2018/22 backing instrumentally

When we did this tune about 4 or 5 years ago, we weren't sure where to place it.

The World Cup Bid came along, and I kept in the back of my mind figuring a way to get footage and buils a video.

Then the official video came along, and just to see I dubbed it over...

First I did the instrumental...

It's a little bit spooky...

backing the Bid for England 2018/22 World Cup Vocally

When we did this tune about 4 or 5 years ago, we weren't sure where to place it.

The World Cup Bid came along, and I kept in the back of my mind figuring a way to get footage and buils a video.

Then the official video came along, and just to see I dubbed it over...

The vocal miz was dubed after the instrumental mix turned out pretty good...

It too is a little bit spooky...

Jermaine the Pain

What can I say about Jermaine Defoe?

He scores a brace for England, and now he's doing a Robin Hood! What a cheek!

I am really happy for him. He's got a nice expensive lawyer who has a hearty reputation for handling footballers' motoring issues and whooping ass at the nick...

... regardless of his motoring conviction history, if that's what it takes for the disproportionate number of stop and searches performed on black British people to be brought to book then I really hope the police force are proper chastised.

Frankly, I don't believe this incident will make much difference to the life of the average black British man, but maybe every little helps. Anyway, I think Mr. Defoe has the right to do what he can to be treated according to proper behaviour. After all the police should uphold the rules in both directions.

To be honest, when Victor Anichebe was mishandled by police while he was on crutches, for

supposedly being a tea-leafing hoodie, I wondered if the cheshire police would be humiliated, but it seems not. Victor, if you ever read this, I would love to know what happened in the end.

Interestingly though, just look at the striking lack of similarity between a crutch, often used by people with leg injuries, and a gun, typically associated with robbers and jewel thieves...

Left is actually what a crutch looks like, some look a little different, but as far as we know only in the Day of the Jackal does a crutch become a gun.

Right is actually what a handgun looks like. Note how you wouldn't expect to hobble about on one.

Anyway, for those who can't afford it, and until things change...

Here's some thoughts on how to help the police do their job properly:

• Check out urban 75s for a guide on what to do when challenged by the police. it is important to be aware of your rights.
• Remember: the police do this for a living, they should know the routine off by heart, so
• they must be aware of what they can and can't do, and
• also know what you can and can't do, so
• they automatically have an advantage. After all, all we want to do is live our lives, and have as little to do with officialdom as possible, but in this case that means knowing what the rules of the situation are.

The Gadget Show Builds a Downhill Racer

Nice item from the Gadget Show Team on how to build a Gravity (or Soap Box) racer

FiveFWD - Soapbox race video from The Gadget Show

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Our Great Country Send Bailiffs to kill Pensioners

Bailiff causes death of pensioner over parking fine