The Last Post

NO, not the military tune they use at memorial services, this really is the last post. It's my last day at the EADT today, so it's time to say goodbye. Thanks for all the posts, and please look after this fair county of ours after I'm gone. Bring back...

Who will stop these people?

BIG Brother ends this Friday, praise be, but in a sort of "Reality TV relay race" style they pass the baton on to the X-Factor on Saturday. So, no sooner do we get rid of the sight of drama queens having fits and sulking because someone raised an eyebrow...

I have been made aware..

...That it's been a while since I have posted. So, in case anyone was worried, and I'm sure not many people were, I am not dead. Nor have I been put into the Big Brother house, or asked to join Love Island. The lack of blogs is down to three things....

A public service announcement

JUST before I go on a week's holiday, I thought I'd be helpful for a change and save some of you some time and money. If you're sitting there, steaming mug of tea in one hand, cinema listings in the other, considering the possibility of handing over...

Today in the Diary Room...

I'M feeling less than charitable today, so bear with me, things could get a bit nasty. A friend of mine revealed a theory he has to make the world a better place the other day. It basically involves lining up everyone who auditioned for Big Brother and...

Big Fat Joe - glad to see him go?

DON'T bother reading this if you're not an Ipswich Town fan. It's a local post for local people. I was just wondering what the consensus of opinion was about yesterday's big news. No, not that Theo Walcott's girlfriend has a tattoo (isn't that illegal?...

If any of you have a spare minute

I see Jade Goody is in London today, signing copies of her autobiography. There's no way I'm going to read it, or waste money on it, so can somebody please go and read a copy in the shop and answer the following questions for me please. a.) Is the title...

It's like a bad dream

WHAT I'm reading today cannot be right. It says that John Prescott has admitted to having an affair with his secretary. This means that someone other than his wife found him attractive enough to break one of the Ten Commandments with. There is no picture...

That woman. Again!

HAS anyone seen Jade Goody? Apparently she didn't finish the London Marathon yesterday. Why am I not surprised. Organisers lost track of her (hard to do surely, even with that many people around) around the 18 mile mark. I might check out the map to...

A truly awful attempt at humour

GOOD news for you fans of perms, leather jackets and suspicious goatee beards - George Michael is going on tour again. It will be his first gigs for 15 years, and kicks off in Madrid in late September. One thing is bothering me though. George was recently...

Horror in the headlights

I HAD to take a drive in the wilds last night, answering an invitation to dinner somewhere on the outskirts of Beccles, and it struck me how eerie this county of ours becomes once dark descends. As soon as you swap A roads for B roads and head off the...

What on earth is that bus for?

I SAW it again today, going past the bottom of Christchurch Park. Yesterday I saw it twice, once heading towards West End Road, and then later chugging along past Sainsburys. It was empty every single time. I'm talking about the Ipswich tour bus. It's...

If you get time today...

Everyone moans about their job, from the badly paid cleaner up to the executive with his company car and enormous expense account. We can all find something to wrinkle our noses at. I'm no different. Today we're struggling to work out how to shoehorn...

Big bother

I SEE Anthony Hutton, the smooth winner of Big Brother, has had his features re-arranged in a Manchester nightclub. The police have someone in mind for the crime of punching his cherubic Geordie face, which is handy because if it was an open investigation...

The boat farce, I mean race

HMM, let's see who will be contesting the boat race on Sunday. Oh look, it's Oxford v Cambridge. Again. They get to the final every year those two. It's a great testament to their rowing skills that they beat all the other universities to battle it out...