I usually buy last year’s models of phone, Mac etc but last time round the iPhone 12 was the first with 5g capabilities so it was worth paying a bit more and future proofing. Now I’m thinking about the next one […]

Swarb’s nephew Simon plays with Merry Hell

I’ll spare you Atilla the Stockbroker but this thread wouldn’t be complete without Bobby Valentino. Someone else can post The Bluebells, I’m going for TMTCH: Shirt of Blue.

Will they lose their flavour overnight?

One of the banks state that downloaded and self printed bills are not acceptable.

A mate shares an industrial estate with a guy who supplies wholesale fruit and veg to supermarkets. He got fed up with mid market retailers rejecting whole deliveries on spurious grounds so he only supplies […]

Tesco definitely inflate alcohol prices, especially spirits. I worked an event years ago where the guest speaker admitted that when Sainsbury’s launched their original loyalty card, whatever it was called, a […]

Tesco appear to make up non Club Card prices to the point where no one would ever pay the claimed non member price. It’s not new and I’m sure it’s all legal but it does piss me off. I’ve been asked a few times i […]

I’ve got a dirty lens re Amazon, having been a driver during Covid but their contract drivers, at least, are massively overworked and badly paid, all the risk and expense being on the driver. Their own liveried v […]

I’m currently registering my father’s power of attorney with multiple banks etc. The Coventry Building Society took a few details and did a “digital check’ and asked for scanned copies of the EPA and a couple […]

DHL tracking is piss poor and they often turn up very early, having subbed some of the round out. UPS left a £10k projector on my doorstep with the huge Panasonic on the box clearly visible. Our Evri driver is […]

Connolly needs to advance the Parker story, not just turn out slightly supernatural crime novels.

I remember that cable service. I have family near Tonypandy and as a child, I was mystified by it as it didn’t seem to turn off. The family just turned the tv volume down I think.

Ooh yes, late period masterpiece etc. Took me a while to get into it but absolutely essential.

There was a sort of follow on from OTB called Don’t Drink the Water. Blakey moves to Spain with his sister, played by Celebrity Squares favourite Pat Coombs. Hilarity failed to ensue.

Billy Bragg: Life’s a Riot With Spy vs Spy. It’s only 15 minutes long from soup to nuts but still brilliant, if an acquired taste. Tom Robinson Band: Power in the Darkness. Hits the ground running and keeps goi […]

I went to give blood, carrying the book I was reading, a biography of Hancock. The guy on the desk deadpanned, “You can’t bring that in here.”

I’m going to put my head up over the parapet and say that the last time I watched FT, probably the mid 90s, I no longer found them funny. Reading through the lines here, they work on their own quite well but C […]

I bought a good Bluetooth receiver for the warehouse, solid as a rock, if a little industrial looking. Plug and play, XLR and 1/4″ outputs.

I’m surprised that Starmer hasn’t gone after the tax affairs of Rothermere and one or two others who shout loudly but pay no tax.