What a sight that would be if it actually happens? I for one would pay real money to see Starbug land in the middle of the street!

I was reading that the new Red Dwarf series started filming (to be shown on the Dave channel over Easter) at Granada Studios in Manchester, including on the Coronation Street set. BBC News reports that Simon Gregson (who plays Steve McDonald in the soap) also made an appearance.

Now I don’t watch Coronation Street, but for years worked many times at Granada Studios and have fond memories of walking down the street and even having a beer in the (fake) Rovers Return. Coupled with one of my fave sci-fi shows (that and Blakes 7) – I for one, can’t wait until Easter.

Now all we need to do is to work out how to get Space 1999 in Eastenders (an eagle landing in the square?) and Blakes 7 on Emmerdale (must be somewhere to land the Liberator in Yorkshire!).

While I’m not one to be out every night drinking my brain cells away, I do like the occasional tipple, but I was quite astonished that The Tokyo Club in Oldham has stooped to a new low. All you can drink for less than £6. I can’t get lunch for less than that these days – but apparently now it’s possible to drink solidly for four hours for just about the national minimum wage.

It’s a sad reflection on our culture that bar owners see this as a solution for their businesses to survive the economic slump. 

The Tokyo Bar is promoting and condoning binge-drinking, which is one of the major causes of accident and emergency admissions (over 1 million A & E admissions last year were alcohol-related).

Didn’t we introduce longer licencing laws to try and combat the very problem of drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short space of time?

All you can drink for £5.99 can’t be the answer.

Welcome to my new blog. 

As I was creating this I was reminded of the time a researcher called me from Sky News to see if I was interested in appearing on The Martin Stanford show. This was a short lived experiment by Sky, a kind of “call-in show with webcams”. I had previously appeared on The Martin Stanford show a couple of times, so I was obviously on some kind of ‘desperate’ call back list (I assume they needed someone to come on quickly).

So, telephone rings, “Hi, this is XXX from Sky News, we were wondering if you would like to appear on Martin Stanford’s show this evening, according to our records you have an opinion on most things”

At that point I think I said I wasn’t interested/was busy and hung up.
They haven’t called back for a good while now

Anyway, they were right, I do have an opinion on most things – this seems the perfect place to vent!!!