November 2006
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Well, the ones at The Lemon Tree (not the arts centre and venue, the cafe at Aberdeen station) certainly aren’t. And I had a most peculiar bacon baguette, which I swear shrank by at least 25 per cent during its sojourn in some form of microwave oven. Still, they do reasonable coffee, which is the…
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…and quite literally. The Starbucks in Aberdeen’s Bon Accord Centre is looking a bit down-at-heel these days, but one surely doesn’t expect large, aluminium-framed pictures to come thundering down on top of one’s cranberry-and-orange muffin? It crossed my mind that I could have staged something spectacular – bruising, stained trousers, ruined jumper, blood in the…
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Phew, had trouble keeping the coffee in the cup on the flight from Sumburgh…then you get to Aberdeen and they make you walk approximately 12 miles from the aeroplane to the baggage carousel… Meanwhile, what’s your German name? I’m Holger Leonhard… Your German Name is: Holger Leonhard What’s Your German Name?
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More geocaching, this time to try and find a cache near Weisdale called ‘Shetland Overview’ James was exceedingly ill-equipped in his uber-trendy Converse All-Stars, but fortunately it was an easy trudge to the site. This is the view, one of Shetland’s finest. On the way we released a sheep that had become stuck in a…
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I was appalled by the way Jools Holland was given/provided himself with two spots to shamelessly plug his own new CD on ‘Later’ the other night. How much power does this man wield? Apparently sufficient to ride roughshod over every BBC producer’s guideline I know of. Allegedly, bands appearing on the show have begun insisting,…
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Is Jennifer Saunders’ Jam and Jerusalem the worst, least funny, most obnoxiously, preeningly self-satisfied TV ‘comedy’ in the history of broadcasting? What on earth is the appeal of Russell Brand? Brain dead zombie goth versions of Frankie Howerd we can surely live without.
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Poor old Quoyle. He was once the ultimate levitating black labrador. He would jump over anything, and now, even a low fence like this defeats him. Another fine day, though, with a spectacular double rainbow over Ronas Voe. Alas, my camera was not equipped with a lens capable of communicating its sheer size. Itwas, take…
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A glorious day, so it was off to the Hillswick Ness for a wee (and very soggy underfoot) wander, made specific and a bit high-tech by heading for Another Fine Ness, the geocache I maintain there. So what’s geocaching? Well, it’s a kind of slow-paced, techno-orienteering-cum-treasure hunt. Makes walking a bit more interesting for the…
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…Still one or two for sale if anyone’s really keen to have their life taken over by a gigantic slobbering Swiss dog that moults copiously every time the central heating comes on.Go HERE for moving pictures!
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So, to recap…och, no I can’t be bothered. The whole gory story can be found on the Samsung and Comet Remote Service blog. Anyway, they came for our old, broken , 16-month-old fridge today, complete with brand spanking new replacement (all it took was a bit of highly specific blogging and a couple of registered…
