Worms eat my Peelings

A few weeks ago, I saw an ad., in the East Riding News asking for volunteers to take part in a food waste trial. The scheme, run by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, aims to reduce food waste by trialing a number of products, including Wormaries. Well, to cut a long story short, we have been selected for the trial and will take delivery of our Wormary and several thousand inhabitants within the next couple of weeks. I thought it might be fun to document our experience in a sister blog http://wormseatmypeelings.blogspot.com/ over the next few weeks. Watch this space.

Dazed and Confused

Bev and I were out walking Kylie the other day when we caught up with a well dressed, elderly man wandering towards Flamborough. He asked us, very politeley, if this was the way to Durham? He had a north east accent and was lucid but confused. He told us that he had been walking for hours, his feet hurt and he was hoping to get a lift home to Durham.

Typically, we hadn't brought our mobile 'phone with us so we knocked on the door of a large, posh looking house with plenty of expensive cars on the drive. The lady of the house said that they were having a 60th birthday party and when her son arrived, he would take our mystery gent to the police station. We continued to find out more about this chap when the son arrived. We explained what had happened and he looked at the old man and said "It's Mr Brown, isn't it? Tom Brown, my old science teacher? From the 1950s? " The old man's face lit up and he was invited in the big house to join the celebrations. The son agreed to sort out the situation andbelieved he knew where the old chap lived.

You couldn't make it up.

Still looking North

I managed to get my picture called "The Roost" in the viewer's picture slot of the BBC's local news offering, Look North, last Monday. A video grab is here if anyone is interested. Incidentally, listen to how much the presenter, one Peter Levy, sounds like Alan Partridge when he says "Top of the tree."

Go Suck an Orange

In the beginning there was FreeServe. It morphed into Wanadoo and it was good. Then Wanadoo was eaten by an Orange and they took the pith out of their customers. Support involves being patronised by a fact-shitting Geek on a premium rate 'phone number and their Web mail is so flaky it's practically unusable. As an ex-FreeServe mail account holder I can't even configure the anti-spam settings without receiving an incomprehensible message about my message having the characteristics of a virus. Sorry guys, I'm changing my settings, not sending a message. The final straw was being asked to stump up and extra £3 a month for my Web space. Those generous Orange boys offered me 5 free Web pages generated by a piss-poor authoring tool designed for the Facebook generation, so I told them to spin. Alas, no more New Bridlingtonian.

So kiddies, I'll be using this (rather impressive) blog site for the foreseeable future. I'm still exploring its possibilities so it'll take a few weeks to settle down in style and content. Please be patient - I'm doing my best.