Modern life is mildly exasperating.

[hirez]

Bother. The ATM nailed to the side of the Tesco metro had a mechanical and failed its attempt to sick up my card. After three tries, accompanied by increasingly distressed peeping and me attacking it with a sharp knife (we'll gash the caul, etc), it gave up.

Hurrah for backup bank accounts, although it's still going to be a bit tiresome for the next 'seven to ten working days' + postal strike.

I'm not sure if it's just Bristol, but there seems to be an exciting new fashion amongst crap car drivers who live on crap streets to park their terrible shitboxes most of the way onto the pavement.

I'm vaguely convinced this is agin the law. Bastards.

I seem to have watched far too much telly this last week. It must be the coming of winter. Anyway, the Micro Men thing on BBC4 is being repeated this very even and is well worth the time, even if Sir Clive appears to be played by Kryten. You fucking buggering shitbucket.

It certainly filled in a lot of the gaps in the timeline that was otherwise documented in the pages of Practical Electronics and Personal Computer World. I'm bound to admit that the whole of the Cambridge thing passed me by, though I never was a fan of the Z80.

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[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Sir Clive appears to be played by Kryten

Yes, in appearance and in acting ability. I couldn't watch it. But I suppose I know how it turned out.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I gather that some of the bits you might think were made up weren't - like the "you fucking buggering shitbucket", for example, which is apparently widely documented.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

You can say what you like about a Cambridge education, it does leave one with an imaginative approach to cursing.

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

Yep, def a Bristol thing. I had this happen to me twice on the way up one street. One misguided lady pulled here bmw people carrier thing right onto the pavement in front of me, making me walk in the road.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you walk _over_ it?

When I cycled through Brissel every day, I had my handy pocketful of stickers with "you park like a fucking buggering shitbucket" on them.

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

Oooh i wish I had some of those

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Sinclair Research fo(u)nt needed, I think...

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Back up bank accounts? Sounds intriguing ...

[maluse.livejournal.com]

Micro Men really was rather good. All the important news of my childhood rolled up into 90 minutes. And good to see that Acorn/Sinclair rivalry is still alive and well. That program simply couldn't have been written by someone who didn't know that Beebs were best.