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Just dabbling with the Photo Booth application and the built in camera that comes with my fancy new computer. I’ve never seen my nose so small

It was only yesterday I was commenting on how winter has arrived already. Well, I can confirm it most definitely has. It snowed last night. It’s certainly not the thickest snow I’ve seen in the UK, but certainly think it’s the first time it’s snowed in October since I’ve lived in the [...]

One of the things that amazed us about TV in the US was the state of advertising on TV. We all know there’s a lot of TV in the US and it’s continually punctuated by adverts, but Claire and I were surprised about the types of adverts and their frequency.
For a start, they actually [...]

Looks like the first white kid to be given the name Winston since Winston Churchill has just been born by Billie Piper.
I’ve been suggesting people name their first born son Winston for some time now, but sadly no one has taken up the suggestion. The closest we’ve got is the teddy bear [...]

I’m sure you’ve all heard that “no word in English rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple“.
Well, I’ve found one that rhymes with purple, and it’s courtesy of Jack Kerouac in chapter 2 of his novel Desolation Angels…
… why ask questions or tear hair or weep, the burple blear purple Lear on his moor of [...]