Apr

29

Relegation

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Three years ago, Southend United finished 17th in Football League Division 3. The highlights of that season were an FA Cup 3rd Round replay away at the Theatre of Chips in Scarborough, with the promise of a lucrative fourth round tie against Chelsea for the winner.

Apr

25

Wii hii!

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8710 9579 5917 6091 Yesterday I received my Threshold pay-rise, backdated to 1st September. Having danced a little jig around the staff room I pottered off to the local retail park to join the waiting list for a Wii. Currys, PC World, Game and Argos had no stock and Technorati Tags: Wii

Apr

23

So farewell then…

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The big man is dead. For some time a poster, signed by such luminaries as Alla Pugacheva, hung in my hall, proclaiming, “Президент должен всегда побеждать” (The President must always conquer). The poster features a decisive-looking grey-haired man in the prime of his life. He is standing with a single raised fist in front of [...]

Apr

11

HD

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So, we have an HD-ready telly and a Freeview DVD recorder yet Freeview is about as likely to broadcast anything in High-Definition [1] in the next few years as the England team is likely to win the next European Championship. Yesterday, however, saw the installation of Virgin Media’s cable offering: it’s really jolly good, as [...]

Apr

1

The telly box

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This weekend, on a whim, we bobbed into Martin Dawes, from whom we’ve been renting a telly and the like since January 1998. We wander in once a year or so to see whether they’ve any new offers for us or could reduce our payments for anything (the Sony video recorder which had an original [...]