Where’s Sonic?

I got this book at the weekend for twenty five whole pence. It’s a ripoff of Where’s Wally, only you have to find Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Eggman, 10 gold rings, and three power-up T-shirts in each “level”. Can you? It’s a billion times better than Sonic 4, anyway. Posted via email from deKay’s posterous

Baywatch vs Erasure

“Blue Savannah” by Erasure popped up on random play this morning, and something about it was familiar. I don’t mean the song, as I’ve obviously heard it before (yes, I like Erasure), but I’d heard it before… somewhere else. Then it hit me: the piano riff is also in the theme to Baywatch (no, I don’t like – or watch – Baywatch). Apparently, the theme is called “I’m Always Here”. Anyway, to prove I’ve not gone a bit mad: Blue …

No business like crow business

No apologies for the very poor pun in the title. It was business involving crows. And there’s really nothing like it. Last year, we heard scratching in our (bricked up) chimney. About a week later, the scratching stopped. Whatever had fallen in had either died or escaped, but we didn’t know what it was at the time. A bird? A mouse? A dog? OK, probably not a dog. About three weeks after the scratching stopped, we noticed a few bluebottles …

D.I.Woe.

Although I’m a remarkably fantastic individual in pretty much every area, there’s one thing that I’m really not the best there is at. DIY. I try. I really do. But things just don’t always work. Take last night’s surround sound speaker setup for instance. I’ve got four speakers to hang on the wall, one in each corner of the room. Running cables was easy – the carpet lifts up and there’s space between the grip rods and the skirting boards. …