World Of Winfield

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tINI & Guti at Factory7, Shoreditch

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tINI was one of my heroes of 2012, with her weekly radio show in Ibiza and amazing, fresh underground house music and her free parties, she was my number 1 recent discovery. Twice I was supposed to see her for the first time last year, both in Ibiza and fabric, but both times for stupid reasons I didn’t make it. I was massively excited all last week, especially given how it was 9 weeks since I had been on a dancefloor and the cravings were overwhelming. I just about managed to not get wasted on Friday night and even had … Continued

2015 General Election

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Pennine Bridleway signpost on Clegg Moor

The keen-eyed and eared amongst you will have noticed that the campaign for the 2015 general election has recently begun in earnest. You know where I stand – I am a Tory.  A modern and liberal one.  Yes – there are different types! I have been musing over possible results. The preferred option for me, is of course a Conservative majority.  So we can finish off fixing the country’s problems and the economy and all enjoy the benefits of a lot of hard work and painful, necessary decisions (inequality down in this government so far). It doesn’t look likely though. … Continued

January’s James Cuisine

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One of the things on my 2013 list of goals to achieve that I still haven’t written because I actually have work to do at work, is to greatly increase the amount of new dishes I learn to cook. Last year I did maybe one new dish a month at a push, the aim now is one a week. Here are the results: This is fried fruit (fruit in a frying pan – who knew you could do that?!) with some kind of spice on top of crumpets.  I liked the fruit but the crumpets were pretty crap.  Very strange to … Continued

Samsung No Fun

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I’m not really getting any inspiring responses from my complaints at the moment, this is about the best I have had recently: Dear Sir I bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 last year. It is a fantastic piece of technology. However – two major problems. 1. I dropped my phone and the screen cracked. Its ok, its only a phone, I can deal with it. However – my previous phones from other manufacturers have not had the same issue with far more stress to them. 2. Typing. You recently released a new firmware update and now the way I text has … Continued

The New Coat Hangers…

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…I know you have been dying to know which color I went for. Well that is the highlight of my weekend done.  Unless of course one of my FA Cup accumulators comes in – I had 4 of them and I could win anywhere between £86.00 and £6,074.00.  Which will pay for my new mp3 player. I also found a bargain in Sainsburys in town, 50 blank Sony CDRs for less than £5 – a third of their original price. Perfect excuse to mention Free House Project.  Saturday 2nd February 2013 8:30pm to 1am. Please come.  I will have lots … Continued

Forecasting During The Cold Snap

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I love the extremes of weather and that is what drives me to do my weather forecasting – that and the belief that people should have access to the same level of information that I do, not just what the major agencies dare tell them. I do have a slight advantage – if I get it wrong, I am not going to lose a major weather forecasting contract, I may have a couple less likes on Facebook or someone might tell me I’m shit – but I won’t lose thousands of pounds or a job, etc.  Therefore I can say … Continued

Ah ah ah ah staying in?

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It’s that time of week where with nothing special planned for the weekend, I need to think about whether I go out or stay in. Staying in is a very attractive prospect. I have lots of things coming up – Free House Project, tINI and Guti, drunken catch up with my lovely friend Julie whom I have known nearly 15 years, Ellie’s leaving drinks plus more I am sure that I have forgotten to list so a rest and time to catch up on all those household jobs would be very welcome. Also my bank balance is closer to zero … Continued

Being 33

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Happy birthday to me,Happy birthday to me,Happy birthday beautiful, amazing me, Have a pint of gravy. OK so my birthday was yesterday but I am so busy and behind with everything – I haven’t even finished writing my review of 2012 yet. Thank you for all my wishes, I hope I have responded to them all individually (Facebook makes everything more difficult). I had two wishes for my birthday, well realistic ones anyway – hot water and gravy. Firstly the heating miraculously starting working overnight on Monday so hot water returned (though still pretty damn cold in my house thanks to heating politics). And … Continued

Working From Home

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Today was the first day that I have ever worked from home. The company I work for nowadays are actually organised enough to prepare for such eventualities and gave me a laptop on Thursday evening so I could work from home if the snow got bad…and with the huge amount  of work that I have on at the moment, a snow day is the last thing I need. Needless to say I liked it.  No getting to 530pm and thinking, now I need to get the train and walk lots in the cold…straight to the fridge to pour a glass … Continued

At Last – A Good Reason To Find A Girlfriend…

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Finally I have good reason to require a girlfriend: Either to make sure my increasingly super-colourful wardrobe does not clash with these beauties. Or to stop me buying even crazier items. I’m not sure!