Some days it’s a struggle. I knew when I decided not to take compassionate leave from University that I’d find some days hard. And I do. Today was one of them. I guess I didn’t really get a chance to deal with the emotions from my visit to my mum’s house, and seeing my mum…

I’ve tidied the lounge, and reorganised, and in the process I made my recordplayer work. And the test icicles limited edition green single arrived. Raaaaaaar!

So, back when I was 2 years old. A mere whippersnapper to a grasshopper, or somesuch, I met a little boy of the name of Brian. Fast forward 25 years, and after a 6 year gap, Brian headed over to Bristol (we’re both to blame for this appaulingly lax period in our friendship) – and…

See, I love music. I love music. I miss having my Hi-Fi around, because I loved it’s warm sound. I miss my record deck. I need to persuade it to work with Lauren’s amplifer. Her amp’s phono input seems to be expecting a much lower signal level than my record deck supplies and it distorts…

Discovery number one: These tee-shirts are ultra-stretchy. Discovery number two: This stretchyness and perhaps the extreme age of my tee-shirt transfers has caused the bar to peel off my MZ teeshirt. This is annoying. Learning point: In future buy less stretchy teeshirts.

…that comment posting ‘might’ be working. Of course, now I’m going to get spammed to high heaven. It seemed to think everything was spam. Or at least some stuff was spam. Some stuff I don’t know where it’s gone. And I can only see it by proding the database directly with pineapple and cheese sticks.…

Andrew’s kindly made a teeny small – 3Mb version of just the interview, thus saving you trying to locate me in 3 hours of radio show. It’s here. Cheers Andrew! He’s also pointed out that comments still aren’t quite working. You do have to register, but then you need to tell me ‘cos it’s not…

Well, I e-mailed Tessa Jowell to try and get someone a bit ‘higher up’ to look at the Bristol Swimming Pool Closures. Well… I’ve got to try! Other things – Kara! KKKKKAAAARRRAAAAA?! Hey, what kind of speed film would you recommend bringing to Alasaka? And how much is film over there (price in dollars for…

*sigh* It works for registered users. If you want to register, click here. Currently I have no idea why comment posting isn’t working; it doesn’t throw an error, the comments just vaporise. Mind, it’s cured the spam-posting-comment problem.

…hear the excitement of me on Morning West; I’ve got an MP3 of just the couple of minutes of the interview with me, Doug and Nikki. Saves you trawling through a couple of hours of Morning West. It’s at 1hr12 for those wishing to locate it in the real audio stream.