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Adding to my Fifteen Minutes

25 August 2009 /

I\’ve graduated from the BBC Five Live night shift to a day spot on BBC Oxford. Fewer listeners, but at least they were awake.

You only have a week to listen to my five-minutes of fame:

Click to listen and move the time line to 32:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00437cj

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MikeH

24 December 2024

It’s almost Christmas!

Despite all our prep all our best efforts, we were out with the Last Minute shoppers today picking up some salmon for our Christmas breakfast of eggs benedict.

We should have picked it up when we did our usual weekly shop yesterday. We like to go shopping early on Monday morning so we can get a jump on the week, but on the 23rd of December, everyone is Sussex apparently woke up at 6am and thought, “Now is the perfect time to go out and buy all the stuff I could have bought weeks ago in preparation for Christmas!”

It was pandemonium. And the meat/fish aisle was, literally, impossible to get through. So, we did what we could and left. Leaving us bereft of thinly-sliced salmon.

but we put that right this morning, and then we went to Boots where we stood in line with dozens of other shoppers buying armloads of Christmas presents and accessories, while all we wanted was a refill of Vitamin D.

Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate this Capitalist holiday, and Happy Holidays to everyone else.