Category: Tim

  • Doctor Who

    The Register says the BBC have confirmed that there will be a series five of Doctor Who. Likely without David Tennant. more… In the comment thread on the Reg article, I found: “I can’t help thinking about our Eddie (Izzard) each time rumours of a new Doctor are abound. The Doctor in a dress and…

  • It's not every day when a former Cabinet member drops in unannounced for a cup of coffee

    “I was sat there looking at the paper and then bang,” (Daily Torygraph)

  • Animal Farm, Teletubbies and Boating

    Tuesday, left Jax behind this time, and took three children out for the day. Collected Lily from Halifax and set off for St Leonard’s Farm (former setting for Emmerdale apparently). Fair collection of animals, for petting, poking and feeding, derelict ride on toys, a playground and an aerial runway. An overpriced cafe serving second rate…

  • Return To Roche Abbey

    Roche Abbey is one of the children’s favourites. Pooh sticks, hide and seek and general running around being the order of the day. Unfortunately, Big was feeling a bit… while Jax was feeling a bit…. But it had its moments anyway.

  • Good news for all you folks in Sheffield, Hull and Glouester

    A £20bn new Thames barrier could be built to prevent potentially disastrous flooding in London. That is about three hundred quid for each person in the country. I think London looks rather pretty this way and at least it would finally stop those irritating demonstrators in Parliament Square.

  • One of a kind

    “Daddy, what is Coca Cola®?” Can’t be many seven year olds who need to ask that one. She is now on the computer surfing the Lego site. She likes the Eiffel Tower (lots of pocket money) and is complaining that the flash movies are taking too long to load. I have told her I will…

  • Survivors

    Over the last week or so Jax and I have been watching Survivors. "Survivors is an outstanding 38 episode drama series with a cult following that first aired between 1975 and 1977… the series concerns the aftermath of a plague which had wiped out over 99% of the world's population and the experiences of a…

  • Energy Saving

    I saw an article at The Register about Energy Buster . I must say at first reading it seemed like a fantastic idea to be able to terminate all the stuff around the house which is on standby, but the more I thought about it, it seemed to me that we would need quite a…

  • Letters Home

    Letters Home is a series of half our programmes on Radio 4 at 9.30am in which immigrants offer their impressions of Britain. I bumped in to one the other week and found it fascinating, and have just read the feature about this today’s From Manchester with love

  • Midnight Caller

    I trod on one the other night. 🙁