A few hours before I left for Skelleftea and Sweden a week ago, I helped Cookie to launch his blog Made in ENGLAND by Gentlemen. As he states on the site;
It’ll [the blog] be mostly concerned with posting amusing things that I’ve heard about, thought about, seen somewhere else or made with my own fair hands. If you like what i like, then you’ll probably like this.
I have only been away a week, and the blog is already filled with ‘amusing things’. Nice to see.
Two weeks ago in Japan, Michael Schumacher, minimised his changes of winning his eighth world champion title due to an engine failure. The engine failure occurred a lap and a half after his last scheduled pit stop.
It’s quite a common that around the time of a pit stop the engine fails. It’s the quick change of the engine behavior; engine running warm - stop - start, that makes the engine vulnerable.
And here I am, on the first day on my last scheduled two weeks pit stop before christmas… with an engine failure. Tomorrow i’m of to Sweden for a week to celebrate my sisters 30th birthday, and this morning I woke up with a cold.
Before my last holiday I experienced the same thing. Think I need to slow down the revs…
I guess I am as vulnerable as formula one car engine.
Even though the last two weeks include some of the very best moments this year (like an amazing present and a lovely dinner on my birthday, an interesting F1 exhibition at the Design Museum and a three hour long breakfast with a very good friend I hadn’t seen in a long time - Adam Frankel), it has been cursed with the mighty shadow of Mr Bad Luck.
I think it all started with Michael Schumacher’s engine failure at the Japanese GP in Suzuka, for which I had bought the X-530 Logitech surround sound system from Amazon that didn’t work, since my Mac Mini didn’t support 5.1 dolby surround, which I “solved” by buying FireWave from Griffin, which also decided not to work…
Yeah.
The clogs I ordered about three weeks ago from Northerner.com decided to arrive last week. They do work (jey!), they don’t need a special sound card or anything… but I ordered four pairs and got three (and one pair turned out to be to small)…
Willow almost flew into the canal last week after the bicycle chain on her Hutch BMX decided to lock the wheel. She’s ok. Her dad, thank god, is also ok after having fallen down an escalator - head first - at Hyde Park Corner Tube Station, which led to a one hour delay of my very lovely birthday dinner.
On Saturday we went to the vue cinema in Islington to see Children of Men - it was fully booked.
On Sunday, after having gone to the lovely F1 exhibition, we had a local handy man round the flat to set up some blinds. After about 90 minutes of preparation we found out that it was impossible to drill (iron beams)… so 3 “holes”, no blinds and £30… to patch that up we pre-booked (HA!) seats for The Departed, the new Martin Scorsese film. It rocked!
It seems like Mr Good and Mr Bad have calmed themselves down a bit. No trace of them yesterday or today.
And hopefully, in the long run - the bad deeds by Mr Bad will be forgotten, while the good deeds by Mr Good will forever be remembered.
As the news.au article warns, “Peter Andre and Jordan’s appalling new duet is four minutes and twenty-two seconds you will never get back”. listen to it here
psss, Jordan’s beautiful voice kicks in after about 1 minute.
Update
and this is how it sound after the music producers have done what they have learned to do best…
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Not maybe as chaotic as I would like an Italian restaurant to be, but the food… wow - I even enjoyed the salad… and the wine list… Negroamaro… tasty!
But, again - I wouldn’t mind some screaming gesticulating characters among the semi posh west london interior. They nailed the food but forgot the atmosphere. But I guess, fair enough - if you want both you go to Italy and not central London.
Locanda Locatelli definitely gave me new perspective of what a good italian restaurants could be like outside of Italy, and it was definitely not the last time I visited Locanda Locatelli
Since yesterday was yesterday and one of those days you have once a year (and that makes you feel older), I hereby am extremely proud to be able to present the latest member of the family, given to me by the best girlfriend in the world, Miss G:
Now, that’s a lady!
They way I read it, Google is acually not buying YouTube, Google is buying the people who are visiting and using YouTube. Google is buying the addspace for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares.
The two companies will continue to operate independently.
and
It [YouTube] has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.
If you ask me, it’s a shame they becomes one.
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