Whilst I wish the couple all the best of luck, why is Keating widower weds weather girl being reported as news?
Healthy eating at school – unhealthy eating outside?
Today Breakfast on the BBC had one big story which was the new regulations with regards to School Dinners, they had every kind of commentator, and the BBC website have collection of articles about the issue.
So I was rather shocked when driving to work today to see this poster against one of the newsagents around the corner. Our local paper The Lincolnshire Echo seems to be giving away free McDonalds all week long.
Unfortunately we only get the Echo on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at the moment so I can’t read the small print, but I’m guessing they won’t be stopping school kids from buying them.
However that’s the only fault I have with the paper. It’s now the only paper I actually read, they’re quite nice to me and they were the ones who caught out Jim Speechley. I’ve also found myself listening to Lincs FM since I began my boycott of Radio 1, and discovered that whilst local radio has a lot of adverts, it doesn’t have either Chris Moyles or Scott Mills talking forever and also includes rather useful stuff like traffic updates and relevant news.
TV.com: Fall Schedule 2006
TV.com have the Fall Schedule out, so I’ve been looking for when the shows I want are on.
The ones I’ve found so far are:
Mondays 10pm – Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
(NBC, premieres September 18)
Wednesdays 9pm – Lost
(ABC, third season premieres October 4)
Thursdays 8pm – My Name is Earl
(NBC, second season premieres September 21)
Thursdays 8pm – Smallville
(CW, sixth season premieres September 28)
Fridays 10pm – Battlestar Galactica
(Sci Fi, third season premieres October 6)
Of course we’ll also have Torchwood to look forward to on BBC3 too.
Google Image Labeler
Tag pictures for points with Google Image Labeler.
By playing the game, you can help Google build a better image search engine, as unlike flickr Google doesn’t have any real way of knowing what’s actually in the pictures it indexes.
Equator
Don’t normally enjoy these English people traveling around the world programmes, however last Sunday I watched Equator and was pleasantly pleased.
There are two more episode left, and the first is currently available to watch online.
Text to park
Now I know this is already possible elsewhere but yesterday Lincoln launched it’s new Park & Pay scheme. Instead of having to find loose change when parking in any of the council owned car parks you can either call or text.
I’ve already pre-registered with the partner company Verrus, so now when I next park at Lucy Tower car park for 2 hours all I need to do is text 7852 2 to 07950 080201.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Managed to watch a copy of the pilot this morning of the new show from Aaron Sorkin. I was really impressed with it, it had the feel of the West Wing, as well as a large number of the cast (at least 6 and I’m sure I spotted a seventh) whilst not actually being about politics.
We’ve yet to really see how any of the episode will run, but the series is on Monday this Fall on NBC so I’ll be watching out for it.
Wheelie bin roll out delayed
As reported in the Echo on Friday the wheelie bins for Lincoln have been delayed for a month due to the suppliers not making any bins.
With the original roll out supposed to begin this week, we were only told by the council on Thursday about the delays, who in turn were only informed on Monday.
It’s a real shame as hopefully the wheelie bins will end the consistent problem of black bags being left out days early.
Unfortunately the council have yet to put the any information about the delays on their website, but FAQs about the changes can be found here, alternatively you can call the council on 01522 873700 for more information.
Buried
Back in May I went and saw Mark Billingham at the Lincoln Book Festival. Whilst there I got his latest book Buried signed. However only last week did I actually finish the book. It’s not that I’ve been busy reading other books or that the book was a slow one to read, it’s just that I haven’t actually read anything for 3 months. When I finally got around to reading it the book was finished in 4 days. Unlike other Billingham books this one is centred around a kidnapping and not a murder. It still has Tom Thorne and the rest of the usual characters appear throughout the book.
If you’ve enjoyed any of the other books, you’ll definitely enjoy this one. 8/10
ps, anyone got any idea why the new book Johnny Come Home by Jake Arnott isn’t on Amazon? I’ve just started reading it and had the book on my shelves for quite a while so it can’t be that new, but can’t add the link to my sidebar.