Back in November, I was browsing Amazon when I saw someone had a second-hand Wii Fit available for fifty quid. (For people without a Wii, the retail price for this is £79.99, but supply problems mean they're selling for more … Continue reading
Not that I expect anyone to notice, but our landline is currently not working for voice calls – callers just hear it ringing, but we don't and we don't have a dial tone either. Curiously, the internet / TV over … Continue reading
I've never paid to go to Erotica (or indeed its rival). On the occasions I've gone, it's been via a free ticket (ex-work were doing a bucket rattle a couple of years ago, for example) and still felt I deserved … Continue reading
When I was one of the people running the London Bisexual Group, so oooh fifteen or so years ago, they'd be forty or so people turn up each week including five to ten new people. One week, someone came back … Continue reading
A friend was supposed to be on Five News this lunchtime, talking about the stupid proposals to criminalise – with strict liability! – buying sexual services from people 'controlled' (that doesn't mean coerced: if you chose to work for an … Continue reading
We get into the nurse's room, and I get what I can only described as harangued about why she should have had it earlier in her life, why it was so important, why people who didn't have it were stupid … Continue reading
I remembered this story today. Simon was Mozart in the original production of Amadeus at the National Theatre. When Milos Forman was making the film, he met with Simon and said he 'obviously' couldn't cast him in the part (too … Continue reading
Amazon.co.uk used to have a promise that if you bought something from them and the price dropped within the next 30 days, they'd refund the difference. If you asked them. And they didn't make a big fuss about pointing this … Continue reading
There's a mailing list which I think only one of you is on, where someone has asked – in all seriousness – "Does poverty really limit choices?" My response: "Let them eat cake" you mean? … Continue reading
.. but in the past week I've seen what will surely end up as 'silliest' and 'best musical'. Spyski is Peepolykus being very, very silly as usual, this time with a spy story interfering with a production of The Importance … Continue reading