I wish I could claim this was worth the wait.

[alexsarll]

I'm surprised this wasn't higher profile, and sooner, but London Overground launches this Sunday. Which in practical terms means that Oyster prepay will now work on various overground stations, including the quite remarkably handy-for-the-Noble Crouch Hill.

I keep on failing to get round to updating, but happily this hasn't been through any lack of things to write about. I've been up to plenty to distract myself from the gnawing void at the heart of everything, I just haven't really had much to say about it. From dressing as a vampire and dodging overenthusuiastic cobwebs, to fireworks and freebies, via the discovery that while there is indeed a real Grange Hill it could never support a school of any size. I've found a street called Savage Gardens (which isn't quite another Knightrider Court, but isn't bad), and seen for the first time one of the peculiar maintenance trains which thread our Underground - and this wasn't even while I was on the ghost walk, but at either end. I've fallen head over heels for Stardust (the fairy story, that is - though it's not long since I saw the rock film of the same name, and that's not bad either), which took liberties with the book's details, but conveyed exactly the same cocktail of wit, adventure and charm.
Really enjoyed the inaugural Clockwork Comedy night, too; James Kettle's gleefully doomed attitude and Steve Hall's thoughtful offensiveness were always going to work for me, and Michael Legge won me over by basing most of his material around Pete. Reginald D Hunter was a strange one, though - good, but seemingly at a bit of a crossroads and in search of a new direction. As I said to a couple of people afterwards, never having seen him before I felt a bit like I'd heard a band's weird mid-period album before knowing any of the hits. Anyway, next one's December 4th. I have no idea who's playing, but trust the hostesses not to book rubbish, so shall doubtless be along.

Freeview watchers - is anyone else finding that Virgin 1 has its 'see you at 6pm' screen up during the evenings too? This is all I've found whenever I attempt to tape The Unit, and I know it wasn't the timings I had wrong because on one occasion I came back just as (had the channel been operational) my recording of the show was ending.

Comments

[diamond-geyser.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Reg isn't entirely sure what he's doing - or why - at the moment. I always find him worth listening to, and that generally obscures any flaws. Even if he's using his stage time to come to terms with himself as well as the world around him.

Apologies for briefly thinking you were quite taken with a film adaptation of 'Starlust', a series of fan fantasies which do not need big screen re-enactments. ('If a nuclear war did happen I'd be thinking: is Boy George safe?')

And with regards Freeview video setting, I used to have this with channels that don't broadcast diring the day (like BBCs 3 and 4). They can get stuck on the Come Back Later holding page, and need you to physically be there to channel-hop and refresh the screen. Not helpful, but it's not just you.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Yep, happens to me sometimes too, I get audio, but not visuals when that happens. The solution I've found is to set the freeview box to come on when the video recorder starts. This tunes out and then back in, so I don't video the holding page.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Mine are silent too...

Does your freeview box have a timer, or is this with a timeswitch at the socket?

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Its part of the box.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Ah. Mine definitely doesn't have that, I've already looked because I feel bad about the electricity used in leaving it on all day.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I enjoyed it, just suspected it was probably an odd introduction to his stuff.

If you did really think that, I fear for your immortal soul. As in, even more than usual.

That is good Freeview knowledge, though I don't recall ever experiencing it with the BBCs. Which is good, because they have loads more stuff I want to watch than Virgin, and I see no obvious solution that doesn't involve altering evening plans. Bah!