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Yet another media star has fallen from grace very publicly, we’ve had Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross behaving strangely, and seen Kerry Katona’s worrying performance on ITV’s This Morning program.
We didn’t catch the original airing of this show, but we did manage to track down this video recording. Click here to share this video with [...]

Yet another annual sporting event creeps up on us unawares as this year’s Grand National steeplechase at Aintree takes place this coming Saturday.
I can’t wait for this year’s event - last year saw us in Australia, so, while we got to experience the Melbourne Cup from down under (it is a huge day, and mid [...]

Yet again, the decision to live and work from our new idyllic rural base has come back and bitten us on the arse as our laughably sporadic broadband supply has cut out for the second time in a week.As the providers, updaters and general managers of a number of database driven sites, we kind of [...]

Following our introduction to the forthcoming RBS Six Nations 2008 rugby union tournament, we’ve been asked by a few people what the schedule for the tournament is. I also promised to shed a bit of light on where to get tickets for the matches.
I’ll also let you know the TV schedule information too (for those [...]

I don’t have a television.
The main reason for this is the fact that I don’t want to buy a television license.
Today, I felt fully vindicated in this decision when, after visiting the BBC website to see if they had any news, I ended up on their I-Player website, and decided to watch the first episode [...]

An article entitled “Law has been left behind by new media” appeared the “The Australian” newspaper today and complains that jurors have access to internet fora when the rest of the media are banned for fear of prejudicing a trial. I’d just like to take up the authors, Peter Faris and Greg Barns, on [...]

This Friday, 5th October, across Australia, it is “National Walk to Work Day.”
Following my articles on Climate Change, and reflections on the Sydney Earth Hour event, as well as my follow up article on Australian Car Culture, I feel that I cannot let this event pass unnoticed.
I heard about Walk To Work Day in the [...]

Mickmack
Pronounced “mick-mack”
Noun

One who uses an item or items discarded by others;

Etymology
Mickmack is perhaps the only nickname to become a word in itself. A few years ago, in rural Yorkshire, there was a character who went by the name of Mickmack. Due to some of his character traits, mickmack became a colloquial term for one [...]

The other day, we were planning our line of attack with regards what we are going to spend to rest of our lives doing (when we have finished our protracted holiday lifestyle, which unfortunately will have to end at some point) when Linda discovered a job that sounded pretty good for her.
The only problem being [...]

Recently I have noticed a huge upsurge in the number of television programs which feature surviving disasters, it’s the old triumph-over-adversity stuff that we really want to see nowadays. But what’s happened to gardening on tv? A couple of years ago, you couldn’t switch a tv set on without seeing some guy pruning or mulching, [...]