Fake Plastic Trees

The arndale centre surely tops the league in crappy christmas displays, this year a bizarre cone with water cascading down the sides. I think it's supposed to be a tree, but why the plastic mr whippy on the top?

There was one of those "360" things in Dixons. I'm far too old to be interested in (Microsoft) consoles of course but I had to look. They had some boring Call of Medal of Brothers of something WWII fps. A young child was joyously shooting his comrades in the head, which in fairness, is probably the most entertaining thing you can do with it.

I'd love to say it will change my life, I mean i hate to let all that hype go to waste, but it was a big letdown really, who cares if you can see the rivets on a stunningly recreated vintage machine gun if the stunningly recreated Nazis still go down after being shot in the knee three times? I mean progress is more than gigaflops and all that yes?

My Old School

This is my old primary school that they are changing into student flats. It's not sad because the school's moved to shiny new buildings behind (and probably made a few quid on the deal). It was hardly a modern educational establishment when I was there, it was large and draughty and the teachers had to close the windows using a pole with a hook on the end.

Hello World

I've been meaning to get a blog for a while, then today I open up my browser to the sentence:

You've got something to say. Express yourself online with Blogger.

When Google tells you to do something you'd better do it. Now the site seems to be having problems so I'm guessing it wasn't just a personal message for me.

I'm going to see if this works now.