The end of BBC Red Button – some personal thoughts
Published on 17 September 2019 in BBC, BBC red button, BBC red button, interactive television, interactive TV
BBC Red Button may be closing down, but it's had a big impact on my life.
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8 Strange Things About Our Summer Holiday Cottage
Published on 5 September 2019 in Life, holidays, Wales
When you rent a holiday cottage and find it is furnished with eight really strange things.
Rice and onions
Published on 3 September 2019 in Food and Drink, Bods's Cookbook Collection, food, recipe
How one recipe proved to be one of the tastiest dishes I know, but I managed not to cook it for 20 years.
Four employer branded t-shirts sitting unworn in my drawers
Published on 30 August 2019 in Work, Amazon, BBC, BBC Online, BBC red button, BBCi, clothes, fashion, LOVEFiLM
Buried in one drawer are some clothes I really don't know what to do with. Four t-shirts. Four branded t-shirts. Four t-shirts with the logo of an employer on them.
The mysterious MP3 that’s not so mysterious any more (or how I found out what some music was with a little help from people on the internet)
Published on 22 July 2019 in Internet, Music, music
With so much information at our fingertips, it’s easy to believe that the internet has everything on it. Well almost everything. You won’t find out how many pairs of socks are in my drawer. But near enough everything you’d want to know. So when you discover a gap in the collective knowledge of the internet, it feels rather strange.
The mysterious case of the unknown MP3
Published on 10 July 2019 in Music, MP3, music
I recently had a mystery. An unknown MP3. But what was the MP3 of? And how could I find out? I don't know. Do you?
It’s all about the (sour)dough
Published on 21 June 2019 in Food and Drink, bread
About a month or so I was in the kitchen looking at a recipe book for bread, because I was feeling a little bored. I was in a breadmaking rut. And it was time to do something different. It was time to make a sourdough starter.
I work from home
Published on 20 June 2019 in Work, BBC
I went up to our acting boss in February 2015 and told her I would soon be leaving London for Manchester. I implied I'd be resigning. Cos that was what I was planning to do. My job was in London. I was moving to Manchester. It made sense. But that wasn't to be. Instead, I started working from home.
Heather
Published on 10 June 2019 in Life, school
It started with a tweet. And ended with a Google search and a fire engine. Also there's some pointless witting on about stuff. Look, it will waste a few minutes of your time, that's the best I can offer.
All the swimming pools I’ve been in since April 2015 – the Stockport, Greater Manchester edition
Published on 19 May 2019 in Life, All The Swimming Pools, Greater Manchester, leisure centres, Stockport, swimming
A brief history of local government, Olympians and Paralympians, No Diving signs and an in-depth discussion on swimming pool design changes since the 1980s.