Since posting this video my bandwidth usage has gone through the roof! So I’ve had to remove it. The video was the whole of the BBC4 Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children programme. Here’s a link with details of the programme and some short clips from it. If you’d like to see the whole programme again drop me [...]
Entries from March 30th, 2010
Paloma Faith
March 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Miscellaneous
Last night we went to see Paloma Faith live – absolutely superb! Here she is singing New York The supporting group were La Shark, you can hear some of their music on the link. I didn’t expect to like them but came away a bit of a fan! Incidentally, and to keep this posting on [...]
Cathy Buckle’s letter
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Zimbabwe
Dear Family and Friends, South African President Jacob Zuma inspected a guard of honour at Harare airport at the end of his brief visit to Zimbabwe. The South African President’s departure was shown on ZBC television and was one of the few parts of the visit not shrouded in secrecy. Presidents Zuma and Mugabe held [...]
Customer (Non)Service
March 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Buses
I’ve been having a bad couple of days with Customer Support people simply ignoring me! The first problem came on Saturday after I downloaded and installed a 30 day free trial of Vipre Antivirus. Reviews of the program were very good and in particular it appeared to use far less resources when scanning files than [...]
Breaking news
March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Buses
From the Hartlepool Mail. “A bus passenger claims he had to tell a driver how to get to his destination after a transport company moved its jobs to depots outside the area. Peterlee resident David Taylor-Gooby says he was on the number 31 Peterlee to Sunderland service when the bus driver took a wrong turn [...]
Let’s get the bus driver sacked
March 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Buses
The last two postings have been about Amy Wootten and her attempt to get an innocent driver into trouble. Now it’s my turn to be on the receiving end. Friday I did the Test Valley school run, you may remember that I’ve posted about Test Valley School once or twice before :-) In case you [...]
