Colonel Irrelevant

The latest proposals from the Beeb to slim down their work and create more opportunity for the Tories to give business openings to Rupert ‘i’m not rich enough yet’ Murdoch stinks.
The Beeb is unfocussed at times but is stuck between balancing public service and political policy of their masters. Hiring freezes continue, great programming [...]

So finally back after Christmas. Another year older and more confusion in Spain. Lots more comments on rent-a-banger but for some reason they won’t approve. I’ll have a look later
anyway I’ll write more tonight or tomorrow. All I can say for sure is leaving work after 7 and it raining for days on end are [...]

Well my last post concerned the delights of being caught in pre-Christmas travel chaos. This is the sequel post covering the period 16 to now.
Finally I took the plunge and called BA about 12 noon. They changed the flights free of charge to the Saturday which led to much mirth and merriment in packing. [...]

Back in September we booked flights from Madrid to the UK to see family and friends. We booked on BA because I hate the constant feeling of adding things onto a basic price that you get with the cheap and nasty airlines.
In November the dispute between the Management led by Silly Willie Walsh and [...]

When you see someone wearing a rag on their head – and I mean a rag and not a headress, towel, turban, hat or anything else but just a rag, can you avoid using the term raghead!

I’ve been tweeting of late and started following a few interesting people.
Things that caught my eye included a nice article on fox hunting, a comment on a times article about vicars and sex and another post about a nasty independent candidate who has issues.
It’s and interesting world and Twitter makes it more accessible [...]

So we are sensing more troops to Afghanistan to support the effort there. 30000 extra from the US as well.
But what is the end game? What chance of establishing a stable political system to serve the people?
Not much in my opinion which is tragic.
What makes me sad is that the reason for [...]

Does anyone else struggle with the mass of social media opportunities? I’m not mad about it all but with a blog here, an untended blog for pictures, facebook, linkedin and Twitter I can’t really keep up.
And I can’t take the time to stuff them all together and some of the stuff shouldn’t collide [...]

Several weeks and no posts is bad! What will you do without a dose of irrelevance? Personally I blame Twitter.

I’d been told that Cordoba was a city not to be missed. A rival to Seville and a true representation of non-tourist Spain. The AVE was good as ever and we arrived to a pleasant square. Modern hotel adds to the favourable impression.
We wander out for dinner on a mild evening. Polo shirt surfices [...]