Zimbra Mindmap

Go south? NFW!

This report says the North is failing ang we should all up sticks and move North. No F*cking way! I came up here to escape from the south in 1974 and things have just got worse down there ever since. I'm not going back!

Actually the North isn't doing too badly but in all seriousness what is needed is to improve communications links between the south and the both (High Speed Rail for example) to encourage inward investment.

Skype have ripped me off

I've just had an email from Skype saying that as I haven't used my credit account for 180 days they've stolen my money from me. I will no longer be using this bunch of crooks.

Free Tibet - end the violence.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/74.php/?cl=67368177

Beadles not about any more

Jeremy Beadle, a TV presenter, died on 30th January.

It's a little -known fact that Jeremy organised the Bickershaw Festival, an event in the North-West of the UK near Wigan, in 1972. He put together a world-class line-up of bands including the Grateful Dead and Captain Beefheart. Apparently he and Jerry Garcia fell out over whether promoters were evil conniving rip-off artists or not. The weather was terrible but the Dead played a stunning set, including Pigpens arguably finest ever rendition of the Lovin Spoonful's 'Good Lovin', and in their ineffable way caused the rain to stop. A year later Pigpen was dead, and that was the end of the 'Good Old' Grateful Dead - the band that emerged in 1974, and then took a year out, was a very different beast.