BS5 goes Guardian! Eek!

This afternoon BS9 and I have been to the edge of BS5, Easton.

There is a wealth of Asian supermarkets and halal butchers in Easton
and we visited our usual one to buy goat for a curry tonight. We also
visited The Sweet Mart, a fab' supermarket with a new (Guardian-esque)
deli counter. We had a mix of meat and veggie samosas and ate them on
a sunny wall.

Curry goat and spinach for dinner!

Spod!

Just home after a fine run in VX52 over the Severn bridge.

Whilst not a pb this is a pretty good mpg performance and worthy of
blog action!

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Maybe it was a good batch of diesel as generously purchased by my top
smart bro'.

Toothpaste action!

My brother is home from Manila and when he comes over, he tops up my
supply of really smart toothpaste. I am easy to please! Here's about a
year's cover!

It's a great flavour that I can't ordinarily find in BS5.

Weekend Tails

Friday night is stick night!

Chillin'

Quiet train, cold beer, good iPod tunes.

Ideal

More journey action....live!

Well transport fans, here's some live blogging from the 1741 Oxenholme
to Birmingham train . I caught it only due to its lateness of a minute.

Three of us drove from Aviemore and I hopped out at The Lake District
to get the train home to BS5!

As you can see, vital provisions have been sourced.

Home for 10pm I reckon!

South!

I am leaving Aviemore just now and am going for Bristol by the day's
end! Car and train might see me there by 9pm! It's 500 miles and just
like BA Baracus (Mr. T) 'I ain't gettin' on no plane, sucker!'.

Love nature.

Well here I am in the middle of a vast Scottish forest near a remote
loch. Nature and wildlife are abundant and constant, and there are
sights to behold .....I have seen Osprey and red squirrel and a myriad
of small birds. I am 498 miles from BS5.

But what has really impressed here in north Scotland?

Check out this generator!

On the ropes.

This is a general test of my ability to blog via email via iPhone .
Not sure if it can handle pics but here's a wee chap I encountered
yesterday whilst working at one of our stores in the north of
Scotland . There again today.

Apple Shmapple

After some initial and really very minor issues with my I Phone, I am now almost a full convert (to Apple....who'd have thought it?!)

The retail experience still irritates but the product is great (or 'The Bomb' as my freind Alaina has it) .

Lots of folks have sent information about my initial gripes and I have now got it all set up, except for watching live video on the BBC. I player is fine for stored or pod cast stuff and there is plenty of chance to catch news, views and a ton of stuff so I am chuffed.

There is aslo a great 'app' (as the trendy apple types say) to catch live radio so I may look at that. Thanks to Bloggers who offered advice.

I have become an I Pod experimenter too and have chucked about 300 tunes on. I do tons of train travel and whilst an I Pod is reasonably appealing I think I will be more of a quiet newsy/review pod-cast sort of a chap, rather than sharing and blaring my tunes via headphone with other train passengers. I think it's pretty selfish to bang out tunes that way.

Off to Scotland for a few days' work so that should all be fun.

I can Blog via I phone so I will have a go at that.

Top Spod action.

See what you can (not) do...

I am a little bit arsed off about my I Phone now that I have it. About it, not with it...

When I signed up with the provider (yesterday) all I wanted assurance on in order to sign up was as follows:

Can I watch BBC News 24 on the go?

Can I Bluetooth my contacts from my Blackberry and my other phone to the I Phone?

Can I listen to the radio live?

A confident yes to all three had me signed up, but here I am 24 hours later and none of those three things is possible!

Arse!

It's all about Flash and Stereo Bluetooth you see.

The Store staff today told me that 'you have been misinformed'.

Cosmic.

It's still a great bit of kit but the retailer in me is a bit fucked off about the careless service.

Dear John...

Surely THIS VID' is the perfect combination of internet spod action?

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And now on with the working day...