Cold snap

Blimmey the weather babes have been excited - every damned weather report for the past week has been peppered with dark mutterings, heavy expressions and superlatives - all   about the upcoming cold spell (April 25/26 - 2017).

It's almost as if they feel finally justified in their roles - in their lives - they are, at last, the NEWS they always wanted to be.

old news

Eh?  Didn't we all get told this about forty years ago?

Most overused word award: 2016

"Amazing"

Christmas, Slade and the killer ear-worm

Somehow, to me, Slade's 'So here it is, Merry Christmas' (no doubt the title is less threatening than this) seems to speak of absolutely everything that Christmas, to me, ISN'T.

Top Tip #87

 

Tired of being run-over everyday by sledges?

Try these light-up antler horns as part of your business attire.

"Fun to be with" people will need no prompting - but even us, the more frail and gentle characters of the species might benefit from such a visibility boost.

Old Movies and Free Space

I've been surfing the freeview channels this month, and partaking of their Christmas offerings.  To be honest, it's a pleasant change from the 96th repeat of Big Momma's House, or Home Alone.   There are loads of much older Christmas movies out there, but most in the 4:3 Aspect ratio (square shaped picture).

So, instead of twiddling with the aspect ratio button - which might be labelled "screen size" or "aspect" or "format" or worse - you'll have to wade through menus - or look for a button like this: 

 

Why not sellotape Christmas cards across the spare TV screen space?
You can re-live those joyous festive scribblings whilst you watch the movie - bargain!

I moved recently - and with that had to come newly bought appliances.
Washing machine, Fridge/Freezer, Wardrobe, and Wardrobes.  4 deliveries.

Now, we're on the second floor.  And all but one set of delivery people have let this be known in such terms that would have seen Laurel & Hardy, or Morecambe & Wise reaching for their notepads to get ideas.

Huge and volume-rich complaints up the stairs, comments about those 'back in the office', astonishing amounts of huffing-puffing, pausing dramatically at a landing, with hand on heart - we've had it all, and in truck-loads.
With one set of blokes (always two blokes) they got as far as trying to involve us in a discussion about dismantling a wardrobe (in the end, just the doors had to come off), I was seconds away from telling them to do their job, or just go - I don't need this pratting about.
Walk a mile in my work-shoes and you'll know what exhaustion is all about.

Funny thing, one set, and one set of blokes only were brilliant.  Friendly, helpful.
They carried the heaviest item (washing machine) and never complained - despite the strain they'd just been through.

These two were not British.  All the rest of the crews were.