Filklore Posts

January 29, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, the door hinge of my washing machine broke. It’s not an uncommon problem – my mum had the same washing machine (Hotpoint WM63), and she had at least two sets of replacement hinges – one set last year. For that reason, I knew she had paid 60 pounds to have them refitted – barely more than the minimum call out charge.

So I called Hotpoint, and was told that it would cost me 120 pounds. That is to have this fitted:

January 29, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, the door hinge of my washing machine broke. It’s not an uncommon problem – my mum had the same washing machine (Hotpoint WM63), and she had at least two sets of replacement hinges – one set last year. For that reason, I knew she had paid 60 pounds to have them refitted – barely more than the minimum call out charge.
So I called Hotpoint, and was told that it would cost me 120 pounds. That is to have this fitted:

January 28, 2010
I’ve recently read a couple of friends posting about their dreams, and I thought I would recount this little story, which I find a little spooky.

I don’t generally remember dreams, but some years back, I used to have recollections of some very vivid ones. One recurring dream was of discovering a whole secret wing of my flat (apartment). At the time I was living in a flat comprising of the ground floor of an small Victorian house – a large lounge, two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. In the dream, it was the same flat, but in a much bigger house, and I would discover that by going down some stairs I had several more large rooms. I dreamt of this several times, and each time I recall being pleased, but doing no more than think “these rooms will be useful when I need them”. In another related dream, I had the knowledge of the new-found rooms, but either couldn’t remember how to get to them, or had lost the key to a vital door that would let me in.

January 28, 2010
“There is an unlikely new player in the British film industry with ambitions to change the world of entertainment. Tesco, the supermarket giant, has moved into movie mogul territory this weekend with the launch of a multi-million-pound production arm poised to make films of books by a slew of bestselling authors.”

via Tesco sets up film studio to adapt hit novels | Business | The Observer.

January 23, 2010
I am in the midst of moving my various websites from their individual websites, to bring them altogether on a Virtual Private Server.

I’ve been hosting with Xcalibre for several years, and I am not exactly abandoning them – they have sold off their hosting operation to Webfusion, who just happened to have some decent deals on VPS, so I am transferring it all across.

January 22, 2010
Memento has long been a favourite film of mine. Those of you who have seen it will know that the story is told largely in reverse chronology, with intercut narrative in the correct chronology. From that description, you’d think it’d be hard to follow, but it does make sense.

Anyway, I was telling some friends the other day about a DVD Easter Egg, which rearranges the whole film in chronological order, and realised that I had never watched it that way. I had read some criticisms that without the non-linear editing, there isn’t that much to the story.

January 19, 2010
My poor garden! I let it go somewhat last year, and I haven’t spent much time out there over the winter. Looking at it today, I realised I need to spend a few days out there, raking the dead stuff up, and generally getting it ready for this year’s sowing.

Yes, it’s coming up to that time again, so is there anyone out there who would like to take part in a little postal seed swap? Due to the (small) size of my little plot, I always end up with more seed of any particular type than I actually need, and on top of that, the two magazines that I enjoy – Kitchen Garden and Grow Your Own – invariably come with a packet or two of seed on the front page.

January 19, 2010
Overnight, my Wordpress blog appears to have been hit by comment spam, and lots of it. Fortunately, none of it got through to the publicly viewed part of the website.

I’ve now enabled a couple of features I hadn’t previously bothered with, which should put paid to this little game.

January 15, 2010
As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I have acquired a nice tenor ukulele, and this month have been pretty much exclusively concentrating on that, music-wise. At first, my playing was a bit halting, but now I am finding I am reaching the chords quite well, and have had good fun working out what popular songs go well with the ukulele.

However, tonight I was trying some Joe Jackson, and one particular song that I thought would work well, just didn’t. However, I was enjoying myself with the song, so I put down the ukulele and picked up my old EKO, to try it on there.

January 14, 2010
So last week the Government announced their Boiler Scrappage Scheme, which offers 400 pounds towards the cost of a new boiler, if your existing boiler is an old (but still functional) “G-rated” unit.

Mine is, and furthermore the scheme starts handing out coupons on January 18th, which happens to be my birthday. Thank you very much.

January 8, 2010
January 8, 2010