Archive for July, 2007
52 Week CD Challenge – June
Finally we’ve reached the halfway stage of the 52 Week CD Challenge (i.e. week 26). Three random oldies this month – which I bought whilst I was still in Leamington – and one new one.
Week 23: Catatonia – Way Beyond Blue (1996)
The formative first album from Catatonia trots along with admirable gusto but ultimately lacks [...]
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Tags: album, catatonia, feeder, indie, shed seven, the fray
WARNING – THIS REVIEW INEVITABLY CONTAINS SPOILERS
So after seven books, 3407 pages and more twists than a very twisty thing the Harry Potter saga is at an end. Thankfully the seventh and final book, whilst far from perfect, provides a very serviceable close to the series which should serve to please Rowling’s legion of fans [...]
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Tags: books, harry potter, jk rowling
Where else can we start but with the Franny Jeffers saga? Only Ipswich could spend two months negotiating a fee only to then find that we couldn’t meet the player’s wage demands. Given that Franny was at the club on loan it seems ridiculous that nobody bothered to ask him what sort of money he’d [...]
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Tags: alan lee, football, gavin williams, ipswich, jim magilton, lewis price, neil alexander, pablo counago, tommy miller
As part of a £116m project, Cambridge County Council are currently in the process of building a guided busway through my village. Ostensibly the busway is being built in an attempt to ease congestion on the A14 dual carriageway between Cambridge and Huntingdon. All well and good, but what exactly is the point of a [...]
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Tags: cambridge, guided bus
Graduation
Graduation; mortar boards, photos and scrolls. Having spent three years at a university that seems to go out of its way to avoid pagentry and pretention I can’t say that I particularly looking forward to my final official visit to Warwick. After all, I’d got this far without such formality, why the need for all [...]
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Tags: graduation, warwick university
Fry on Facebook
Social networking site Facebook took another step towards global domination with week with the news that Stephen Fry has made himself a profile. Strange as it may seem, the Blackadder star clearly has nothing better to do than sit in his Norfolk home surfing the net.
Amusingly though, Stephen discovered the difficulties of mixing celebrity [...]
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Tags: facebook, stephen fry
As a nation, we Brits are famed for hyping our sport stars often to ridiculous levels. Usually this results inevitable disappointment when said sport stars turn out not to be Gods, but mere humans after all. However with Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton, I genuinely believe that we have a Britain who really does match [...]
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Tags: formula one, lewis hamilton
