Month: September 2011

Government pissing money away..

You may have heard about the £469 million that the Government wasted on big Fire and Rescue service control rooms. The IT system never arrived and everything was rushed, but still the Government are paying to lease the buildings. The Beeb had a look inside one of the 8 unused centres today. They’re costing the tax payer £4 million PER… Read more →

Anna and Katy

These two sketches had me crying with laughter last night :) They’re from a comedy show on Channel 4. The channel is doing a “comedy lab” and hopefully they’ll get their own series. :) More on the links below.. Links – Channel 4 – Facebook Read more →

Speed tests

I hate broadband speed tests. Do a speed test now. Wait 5 minutes. Do it again. What happens? Yep, it produces totally different info. Don’t trust them. Still, I ended up doing one today for testing and got this… :) I had to smile a little, even if I do treat them with a pinch of salt. FTTC is, in… Read more →

Creme Brulee and a heat gun

Last night we were eating dinner and, after, we decided to have some creme brulee. We’re not posh – it was from Tesco and had a little sachet of sugar on the top which you had to melt onto the creme brulee with a grill. Well, we couldn’t be bothered, so we had a think and I remembered the heat… Read more →