Why do you have to pay for 'free' advice?

Well not a fat lot has happened in the last week or so, thus distinct lack of blogging, but that may change in the next week or so, as I have decided to introduce a series of 'random' blogs, where I'll just randomly talk about anything, and you can have a good old laugh...possibly. Feel free to suggest random things to blog about in my shoutbox thingy, oooh its all gone interactive!

Anyway, on with the blog, and we'll start with the possible joint-highlight of the past 10 days, we have a new TV! Our old TV broke down and died about 5 days after I came out of hospital, which was a real shame as we really liked our TV, but it gave us a chance to join the digital age, so we bought ourselves a nice new shiny 32 inch Samsung affair, which is just gorgeous and gives us freeview, so as a virgin media subscriber, we have bypassed their anal argument with sky and finally have sky news and sky sports new back on our screen, whoop whoop! The financial disaster has never looked so good! Still don't have Sky One, but we'll survive.

We've actually been watching the crusise holiday videos on it this week, which just look depressingly beautiful, and make us want to go again, but having just seen Dominica flattened by Hurricane Omar, and St Lucia, Martinique, Grenada and Barbados effected by a big wave or 50, we might leave it until they have at least rebuilt most of it until we go back! Anyway, if anyone knows a good DVD burner from DV video's, then please let me know! Speaking of DVD burning software, I had a looksie on t'internet to see which software was best for what I wanted to do, so I looked on the Which website, which is always harping on about being the first port of call for the consumer that wants, and for some jackass reason, you actually have to pay for a subscription to the damned site to read a bloody review of the goods they have reviewed! How ridiculous is that?! How does that help the average consumer, when we all are having to scrape together as many pennies as we can before the country goes bankrupt!

This week also saw me going to the doctors to get signed off for another 2 weeks, which he did, but my Doctor also mentioned that his father gained a doctorate in urology, and in the good (?) old days, they used to take a chunk out of your bladder to make into a new pipe for you, which begged the question from me of 'well, don't you sort of...need.. it in your bladder', to which the reply came 'well yes, but it does grow back, however it hurt so much that you were drugged up for a good few weeks', which is always nice to know!

Anyway, the upshot of it is that I have another 2 weeks off, as my wound still has to heal over, but my cheek is almost back to normal, so thats a positive.

Today sees the mighty Villa entertain the mighty Ajax (not the cleaning fluid, for those non-football fans), which should be a fantastic game, I've even prepared to go and see it by wearing jeans for 3 whole days without searing agony. I know, thats commitment!

I have also rediscovered the excellent Dangerfield, which was a cracking medical/detective series in the 90's. I knew it was filmed in the midlands, but never actually knew it was filmed round by me! The majority of the footage is in Warwick, but most of the road shots and outside broadcasts are in Earlswood, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Redditch (that would be the episode where Dangerfield couldn't find his way out of Redditch and kept ending up in Bromagrove!), Hockley Heath and Wythall, yes little old Wythall was brought to the big small screen in the 90's! Tune to Alibi every day to see for yourself!

Tarrar-a-bit!