What Next For England Cricket
A lot has (and is) being said about the future of England Cricket, and as usual lots of symbolic comparison to the deckchairs on the Titanic are being made. This …
The Changing Face Of Cricket Commentary
I have become slightly obsessed (no surprise I know) with watching cricket on TV not so much out of any interest for the actual games, but for the detailed technical …
Time to stop selecting and start building the Test Team
The background to this post is the not unexpected early finish to the first test in Australia for the England Team. Well I say not unexpected, and I am pretty …
Lockdown 3.0: Preparing For Re-Entry
Last Lockdown 3.0 post, and hopefully last Lockdown post ever – you and me both – as this week welcomed the first milestone on our release back into the wild …
Twitter Sphere: Anger All Around Us.
I have, thankfully and by design, been very quiet on Twitter this week. That is not to say that Twitter has been quiet or that I have not been aware …
COVID-19 Diary: Impact on Brexit
Before the EU Referendum if asked what I would thought/would vote I would happily express the view that I would like to vote Leave. Living in Spain at the time …
England Test Cricket
Cricket has come a long way since I started playing and watching in the 1970’s. For the record I was a better watcher than player, although I had my moments …
Talk To Me
In 1974 I saw Michael Crawford in Billy (the musical based on Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse) at Drury Lane, London. In fact to be precise I saw him twice: …
Six Months Back In The UK
Six (6) months today we walked through the doors of The Cottage. I wrote before about the reasons for basing ourselves back in the UK so I wont repeat them …
UK is not European
I am interested as to how European the ‘typical Brit’ feels, because as far as I can tell the UK is remarkably un-European. Most months our ALStrays Pet Transport business …
What Is Wrong With A Referendum
Why don’t governments want to offer referendums. After all they were happy enough to accept the views of the public when they were elected, so why aren’t they prepared to …
Hard To Find Any Sympathy
So 18 million Brits aren’t able to afford a holiday this year and I have to say I find it hard to get too excited about the fact, or to …
Kevin Pietersen Is Too Selfish
Just watched Cricket Writers on TV and the introduction to the Sky coverage of the test match and am somewhat amazed at the praise being heaped on Kevin Pietersen! Sure …
Romanian workers in Britain send home £500,000 every day.
It is no secret that the Eastern Europeans have a great work ethic, and are more then willing to ‘go without’ themselves in order to send money back home, and …
Recent Purge On Email Accounts
I wrote recently on my Almerimar Life site about a de cluttering project that we had started. This was (and is) aimed very much at the physical side of life; …
Sheep Rule 80% of Twitter
There have been a number of articles recently around the fact that 80% of twitter accounts have less than 10 followers. While some have blamed Spammers and other ‘squatters’ I …
iPetition Cough Up Refund At Last!
When I first thought of setting up the Monarch Airlines Petition I had a look around for a online service that would allow me to integrate with the site, so …
5 Reasons To Jailbreak Your 3G iPhone
I have always jailbroken my iPhone. With the first generation I had no choice as it was the only way that I was going to get it to work here …
How Much Do We Really Know?
When is knowledge enough to be useful or enough to be dangerous? I have been asking myself that more and more these days. As I flick through the RSS feeds …
6 Of The Best
6 of the best – a phrase that will bring back memories for a number of the UK readers I imagine!!! A friend of Sands recently returned to live in …
Remember Apple Computers?
No I haven’t suddenly lost my mind overnight, or moved to some backwater place where they don’t have Macs!!! What I mean is, do you remember the company Apple Computers? …
Recent Books Read
I seem to have worked my way through a number of books since I last posted on books read. At least one was a recommendation from Gary, one was a …
Stacks
Hands up who actually uses Stacks in Leopard. It is one of the features that I keep trying to find a use for as the theory of keeping less in …
Google Ads Are Back
First up this is a 180° about turn I know but there is a reason for it, honest! When I first started blogging I added Google Ads, I mean who …
5 Photo Apps
To understand this article you need to understand my approach to photography, and what I am aiming to achieve. I have little doubt that everyone has different objectives, priorities, reasons …
5 of the best in 2007
As we head out the door of 2007 it is as good a time as any to do two things; to take a look at the top 5 purchases that …
5 Songs for Christmas
I have a few things to finish off and then I am going off line until after Christmas. I have spent the morning listening repeatedy to The Killers Don’t Shoot …
5 Comfort Foods
It may well be because I have been feeling ill for so long, but also the fact that it is winter (yes even here in Almerimar it gets a little …
Which Tripod
About the best thing that I have done so far regards buying a Tripod is not to buy one. I would have got it so wrong!! I had totally underestimated …
Chaos
I really enjoyed Chaos. I thought it was well acted and had a pretty good story line with an interesting twist at the end. It wasn’t that great watching it …
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
I watched this purely because I had watched the first two and wanted to say that I had seen all three. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was ok, …
Oceans 13
A couple of the guys that I was with in Dubai really rated Oceans 13, but they also really rated Oceans 12 which I hated, so I wasn’t really that …
iPhone in Germany
Meant to drop a quick post on this a few days ago when I read it – but where have the UK’s guts gone? First France stand up to Apple, …
BackUp Strategy
I have been mulling over the ‘best’ backup strategy now that we have Time Machine and really cheap storage to hand. I have a sneaky feeling that a lot of …
UK iPhone Stories
Since the iPhone was launched on Friday in the UK I have heard from a number of you on your experiences and I thought that it might be fun if …
Technology during UK trip
It has been a while since I last made a business trip, in fact the last one was February 2006, so I was somewhat intrigued to see what I would …