October 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Christmas is coming and the Stig is getting stuffed. Actually its just a doll version but the message is still very much the same. I’m still not 100% certain of the timing of the start of series 12 of Top Gear - it’s either at the end of this month or the very start of next - either way it will finish near Christmas. On... [Read the full story]
September 27, 2008 · 1 Comment
When I was a teenager at school in Hertfordshire, England there was a little bait shop just around the corner from the school grounds. There was nothing particularly distinctive about the shop - it sold bait, fishing tackle, rods - everything a fisherman would need to … well - fish. But every lunchtime there would be a... [Read the full story]
September 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I was going to write a post about one of my new favourite shows and it was going to be called ‘Love the Show - Hate the Player’. That isn’t the name of the show, just the name of the post. The show is called Top Trumps - it basically does what it says on the tin and sees two grown men playing real life Top... [Read the full story]
October 6, 2008 · 1 Comment
We’ve been waiting a whlie - although some of us have already got one from the UK or France and unlocked it - but the iPhone is finally, officially coming to Jersey. The provider: Jersey Telecom and Sure - although neither ‘official, Apple branded retailers’. The islands state owned telco and the Cable and... [Read the full story]
September 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The moustache, once a beacon of gentlemanly authority, a guiding light that suggests power, intelligence and importance. Now, like the cane – an icon of the alternative lifestyle, of something different and of people with the balls to say ‘look I’m different and I don’t care’. But for one month the humble moustache... [Read the full story]
October 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
There’s more to the headline above than an excess of capital letters that would have my English teacher steaming at the ears and some of the pedantic readers of bbc.co.uk/jersey knawing their teeth. There is a reason I filled it with caps - you see it’s full of new television channel names - well one is an old television... [Read the full story]
September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Actually that should be that they’re changing Top Gear - but the headline didn’t really work if I added the word Top before the Gear. Basically the point of the post is that there will very soon be a new look TopGear.com - not sure if the public service site will be getting a make-over but the commercial one certainly... [Read the full story]
In the Republic of Movember
There’s more to the headline above than an excess of capital letters that would have my English teacher steaming at the ears and some of the pedantic readers of bbc.co.uk/jersey... [Read more]
We’ve been waiting a whlie - although some of us have already got one from the UK or France and unlocked it - but the iPhone is finally, officially coming to Jersey. The... [Read more]