I woke up this morning to the sad news that (Sir) Jimmy Saville had died yesterday (the 29th of October) at the age of 84 (in fact, 2 days shy of his 85th birthday). Most people under the age of 25 or 30 will never have heard of Jimmy Saville, but to people over 30 [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Now then, now then, now then
Posted in Music, News, TV, tagged Disk Jockey, Jim'll fix it, Jimmy Saville, Top Of the Pops on 30/10/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Number 1 in the World
Posted in News, Wales, tagged health, Lonely Planet, Natural beauty, News, Tourism, Wales on 29/10/2011 | Leave a Comment »
On yesterday’s BBC Wales Today evening news programme there was an item about the soon to be completed Wales coast-path. It has been voted number 1 in a list of “top regions to visit in 2012” of anywhere in the World by Lonely Planet. What a fantastic achievement for Wales, to top the list of [...]
The sperm bank
Posted in Comedy, TV, tagged Kramer, masturbation, Seinfeld, Sex, US TV shows on 28/10/2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday on Twitter, a friend of mine commented on how odd it was to see an advert for a sperm bank on the London underground. When I asked him why he thought this, we got into a discussion about how many male students donate sperm as a way of making a bit of extra cash [...]
No plastic please, we’re Welsh
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Devolution, Environment, Plastic, Recycling, Scotland, Wales, Welsh Assembly Government on 27/10/2011 | 8 Comments »
In 1997, a referendum was held in Wales to decide whether we wanted some form of self-government. It was voted in by the narrowest of margins, so since 1999 Wales has had some level of devolved government, the Welsh Assembly Government. This gives Wales its own control over certain aspects of everyday life like Education, [...]
Training day
Posted in Comedy, TV, tagged BBC, David Brent, Ricky Gervais, The Office on 25/10/2011 | 1 Comment »
Today I have some kind of training in work. I really don’t know what to expect, but if it is an disastrous as the training day in this episode of the BBC sitcom “The Office” then it will truly be memorable. However, I am yet to come across anyone quite as bad as David Brent [...]
Near misses and thrasings
Posted in Sport, tagged English Premiership, France, Manchester City, Manchester United, New Zealand, Rugby World Cup on 24/10/2011 | Leave a Comment »
This Sunday morning saw the final of the Rugby World Cup, between New Zealand and France. My son needed to be in Barry by 8:30am, so I decided to go for a run along the Heritage Coast from Llanilltud Fawr (Llantwit Major – how did the name “Illtud” become “twit” to the English??). I watched [...]
The flowers aren’t growing anymore (song)
Posted in Welsh history, tagged History, Liverpool, Nationalistm, Tryweryn, Wales on 22/10/2011 | 2 Comments »
This morning in a magazine I saw an article on Meic Stevens, the Welsh language folk singer. I was in the car with my daughter, so I put on the following song from my iPod – “Tryweryn“, which Meic Stevens recorded in the late 1960s (I think!). The song is about the drowning of the [...]
The death of a clown
Posted in Music, Politics, World affairs, tagged Australia, Clown, Gaddafi, Rugby, The Kinks, Wales, World Cup on 21/10/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A quick post following the defeat of Wales by Australia in the 3rd/4th place Rugby World Cup playoff match. I may have time later to post a match report, but I thought I would quickly post this – in reaction to the news of Colonel Gaddafi’s death at the hands of the so-called rebels in [...]
The Antikythera Mechanism Decoded
Posted in Physics, Technology, tagged Cardiff University, Fraud, Mark Brake, public lectures on 20/10/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A very brief post-ette to mention that this evening I am going to a public lecture on the Antikythera Mechanism, presented by Cardiff University’s very own Professor Mike Edmunds (the same Mike Edmunds who was the erstwhile supervisor of the disgraced ex-professor (but now just Mr.) Mark Brake). I will write up a report on [...]
