Got me a bug

I have always envied Peter his bug. He got it a while back and he reckons it is very nice.  Yesterday in Tesco (is there a day when I don't go shopping?) they had one at a very nice price. So I now have my own bug.

It is a digital radio which can also record to memory card. I want to use it in the kitchen.  At the moment the kitchen radio only works properly if the dishwasher is open - no, I've no idea why this is - and I was looking to improve matters.  I was expecting to have to add a special aerial and stuff like that because we are in a kind of "Bermuda Triangle" where things like radios are concerned. However, it just works.  Very impressed. It pulls in a good signal and now I can listen to all the childrens programs on BBC Radio 7.  Great stuff.

Dinner with friends

 
They had nice flowers

Went out for dinner tonight. Of course I was my usual witty and urbane self. I just hope that they'll invite us back anyway.

Durham Discussions

Jolly boating weather

Drove up to Durham to see number one son today.  After we had got together and sat down for a coffee we had a discussion about who said what last time we met up.....

With the way that portable memory is getting cheaper and cheaper I can forsee a time when we all wear a thing which records everything we say and do (I think HP and Microsoft have played with these in the past). Then there will be none of the "But I distinctly remember that you said...." moments. Instead we will all just rewind to the precise point in time when the words were uttered and then argue about what they meant at the time.... Not sure if this is progress or not though....

An Apology

Sorry about this folks. No idea what made me think of it:

"We might have room for you on our hyperventilation course Mr. Miles. But I wouldn't hold your breath..."

Russian Reactor Dreams

I blame Sky One. I had a dream last night that I had been made in charge of a Russian nuclear reactor. They had given me a bright yellow survival suit outfit (like they wear in the movies). I was sitting at home in this thing (trying it out for comfort) and reading through some reports which were all written in Russian on bright yellow paper. They seemed to have the Russian for "Urgent" and "Danger of explosion" written all over them, although I'm not completely sure as I can't read the language.

I was just inspecting a datestamp on one of the more impressive looking warnings, and trying to find out if it was in the future or the past (not sure how Russians order their dates) when number one wife looked over my shoulder at the page.

"You ought to get one of those" she said, pointing at a picture of a complicated thing that looked like a reactor seal or something. "It only costs 25". I looked at the number and was about to explain that 25 could mean feet high, million Roubles (or kopecks or whatever) or years old when I heard an alarm in the distance....

Fortunately, at this point I woke up.