Serial money-grabber and general grifter Mike Joyce is at it again.. Ex-Smiths drummer Joyce appeared on BBC Radio 6 (6Music) last night, plugging the fact that he was selling rare Smiths paraphernalia on eBay. Obviously not content with receiving 25% of Smiths royalties since 1996 and a £1million lump sum for doing absolutely nothing creatively when the band existed, he’s quite obviously in a spot of money trouble again since he is still proving that he is totally talentless, with [...]

No internet connection tonight, some little vagrant bastards decided to take it upon themselves to set the NTL junction box at the end of my street on fire so cable broadband and telephone are out. Luckily we have Sky satellite TV else I’d be totally screwed. The NTL engineers are working on it right now though, so hopefully won’t be too long before it’s all back.

I saw this in a quirky little store in Ashbourne and knew I had to have it. The geek in me prevails once again.

We’re in the Peak District this weekend, expect a post on Monday. We’re staying at the Boars Head hotel just for a relaxing break before the Christmas rush starts. The picture that you see is of the sunset as we were driving the car back from Bakewell to the hotel after spending the day there, nice little town. Country life is so different to city life.

Well, today is the day. Judgement day, if you will. Today is the day that society begins a fast descent into unmitigated decline. Don’t expect anybody to turn up to work tomorrow. Doctors, Nurses, Politicians or Bus Drivers, all will resign their posts in favour of being at the pub. Or so the Daily Mail would have you think. Yes, that’s right, as of today, we, as Brits can buy booze any time of day or night. Pubs & Clubs, [...]