All The Fun Of The Fair
The fair in Kings Cross Square was going well, when I visited this morning.
Do we need more open spaces like this, to put on events? Of course!
Are People Generally That Dim?
I was surprised that this poster for the film Le Weekend has a translation of that into English.
Are People Generally That Dim?
I do wonder how many wouldn’t have realised it was a French film about a weekend. I hope not very many.
Checking on Wikipedia, it’s actually a British fim, written by Hanif Kureishi
A Sky Satellite Dish Is So Yesterday
I’ve just looked up what football matches, I can watch over the next few days, through my steam-driven broadband, BT Sport and Freeview.
Tonight, BT are showing Wigan, whilst ITV4 is showing Swansea and Tottenham. All in the Uefa Cup. As I’m seeing Wigan on Sunday, as I’m going to see Ipswich play there, it’s rather a no-brainer, which matches I’ll watch.
Tomorrow, I’m busy in Liverpool, but the only match is on BT and it’s a German one. I’m not that sad yet!
Saturday, BT are showing a Premier League match, but as it’s Norwich, I assume they are going to pay me to watch it! Later I might want to watch Fulham on Sky, but obviously I can’t!
Sunday has some good matches on Sky, but I’m on the train going to Wigan and back to watch Ipswich. At least Virgin’s trains are higher up the speed and reliability scale compared to their broadband.
So BT Sport’s deal of free football with broadband, is equivalent to a supermarket giving away burgers made of horsemeat. It may look good, but it’s not what you want.
I’m almost getting to the point where I put up a satellite dish for Sky.
But that is yesterday’s old technology and I would only rip it out again, when fibre optic broadband became available. I’ve no objections to Sky as a company, as they gave me good service, when I lived in Suffolk.
Fibre-optic broadband would give me everything I want. But when will someone deliver it to me? Or is Hackney too rural for it to be hooked up? On the other hand if Innerleithen, in the Scottish Borders can have fibre optic broadband, why can’t I?
BT are keeping the delivery date secret! Which of course means I can’t plan!
I have written to my MP, Meg Hillier, who is also the member for Silicon Roundabout and Shoreditch. She said this in a letter to me.
I am very aware of issues around broadband in Hackney, particularly in the Tech City area around Shoreditch. The growth of these cutting edge businesses in my constituency is an exciting addition but I am very concerned that the infrastructure to support their tech needs is not in place.
She obviously has more clout than any Hackney resident, so if you have a desperate need for fibre-optic broadband, I’d send her an e-mail. The best way is to use WriteToThem.
Alan Partridge
I went to see the new Alan Partridge film at the Barbican last night.
My late wife was a fan of the original Alan Partridge television shows and she would have found last night’s film funny. I can remember seeing Cock and Bull Story with her in Cambridge, which we both enjoyed immensely.
Especially, as a lot of the film was set in Norwich, a town she knew well, as she’d practised as a barrister in the city on and off for more than thirty years.
So, although, I enjoyed the film and will give it four out of five, as both The Times and Guardian did, I found the film slightly sad. Especially, as I watched it alone.
If say the film had been set in say Bedford, Shrewsbury or Stoke, I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
Sequins On My Balcony
I went to see this entertainment at the Rosemary Branch last night.
To say it was uplifting would be an understatement, but to anybody who’s been affected by breast cancer either personally or through a family member or friend’s suffering, Yvette Cowles got it absolutely right in my view. I have never had any cancer, that I know of, but what Yvette said about fighting breast cancer, could have applied so much to C and her successful fight against her lump.
Nothing though, helped in C’s unsuccessful fight against the cancer that killed her.
The Man In The White Suit
This film is on BBC2 tomorrow. The BBC has labelled it as B/W. surely, it’s mainly white!
The Odd Stories On BBC World
BBC World seems to have some stories that you don’t normally pick up, although of course the main BBC News may have covered them.
Cooking Oil Theft – It costs the Treasury a lot of money
Fortnum and Mason’s Bees – I must try some!
Death Penalty For Groundhog – He didn’t get the weather right!
A New City Is Growing Up
Forty years ago, when we lived in the Barbican it was a good place to live, and it was very convenient for me to get to my various jobs in the City and for C to get to University College. But it wasn’t a place for living at the week-end.
Now though, with places like One New Change, the City is becoming a complete place to live, work and play.
As it’s only a short bus ride from where I live, I can partake of the good life. I have found in recent months, that I’m visiting shopping centres like Eastfield less and less.
The Joke’s On The Recession
We may be in the depth of a recession, but you wouldn’t suss this from the magnificent response of the public to Comic Relief, as reported here on the BBC.
The Anonymous Widower 