For our youngest daughter’s 16th birthday, my wife and I arranged for her to see Phantom of the Opera in London with three of her friends with time for shopping as well. Obviously, we were not keen on just sending them off to London on their own to fend for themselves so my wife and …
Category Archives: Arts & Entertainment
ebooks now geographically restricted
I have been reading ebooks for years. As I have posted previoiusly, my main source has been from ereader.com (now owned by fictionwise.com itself owned by Barnes & Noble). There is an ereader format reader available for most capable mobile phones, PDAs and PCs. For years I used various models of the IPAQ PDA but …
Great theatre show
For years, my youngest daughter has been keen on musical drama. She has trodden the board hundreds of times in many many shows. She also used to be in a dance troupe but these days sticks to just drama. The latest show by the Muscial Theatre Academy was Thoroughly Modern Millie which ran at the …
Still no sign of Amazon releasing the Kindle in the UK
Just read a post on the Kindle UK, Canada Blog and posted a comment which I have reproduced below. As I have said before, I am a big fan of ebooks and have purchased a lot of content from ereader.com in particular – I find most books I want, including most available on the high …
new specs
Had my friendly neighbourhood optician put some new lenses in my existing spectacle frames this evening. The lenses are varifocals to a new prescription so I am going through the usual head mangling process of my eyes (or rather, my brain) adjusting to the changes. Fortunately, the distance part of my prescription has not changed …
Death of a comic
Seeing a comic get an audience completely wrong, lose confidence sand stuggle though to the end is not comfortable entertainment.