I allow BBC News to send me notifications on my phone and tablet. This can be both a curse and a blessing. I don’t really watch the news much these days, preferring instead to not have that slice of misery in my life. However, it has struck me that there is an element of unfairness […]
Stephanie Meade from Seattle, Washington first wrote to Muhammad Ali when she was 10 years old. More than 30 years later, they were still corresponding. I adore this story. Read the full account here.
Today was Parent’s Evening at school – a busy day which totally drains me as the constant thinking and talking just wears me out! Upon getting home I had a lovely tea made by Mrs Pitts and then caught up on some TV. Right now, Sky F1 is showing the 1998 Japanese Grand Prix, the […]
It’s strange how the internet works. The second most popular page on the BBC News site isn’t from today, nor this week, month or even year, but from 27th October 2011. The page in question is titled: “7 billion people and you: What’s your number?” It is a sort test to work out where you […]
Yup, one year to go until the Olympic are held in London. Leeds, however, is significantly far enough away to get away with just acknowledging the fact that it is happening somewhere with a gentle nod and occasionally watching highlights on TV. A few things stand out about this event, and I’ve written about it a few […]
Most Leeds folk know that the market town of Pudsey is famous for many things – not just the Children In Need bear. Anyway, it certainly isn’t ‘Pudesy’, as spotted on a sign on Pudsey Road the other day. It was reported to the council via Fix My Street. This isn’t the first time a sign based […]
Nick Abbot, 24th October 2009: The Prime Minister was confident, his party was certain, the City seemed sure and economists and the press were agreed. Britain had come out of recession and green shoots pushed up through dead brush of the down turn and covered the landscape for as far as the eye could see… […]
The Daily Mash is: a satirical news website which exposes the absurdities of modern life to rigorous scrutiny with “hilarious results”. The Daily Mash satirises the worlds of politics, media, culture, and sport with spoof news stories, commentary and opinion (this means that it’s all made-up and is not intended in any way whatsoever to […]
It was a well known fact, commonly stated in recent weeks due to the death of its creator Ronnie Hazlehurst, that the theme tune to Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (which is horrible to type due to the apostrophes) incorporates the show’s title in morse code in its opening bars. The BBC has published this […]
Entries like this are relatively difficult to write (and, for that matter, to categorise) and so forgive me for the stream of consciousness nature of it. Websites such as YouTube have come under fire recently for not doing enough to discourage cyber-bullies [BBC News]. Meanwhile, Tim O’Reilly, author of a number of computer based books, […]