Nathan Barley Times Four

Part of a post from last week. Especially the bit about the hit-and-miss wifi.



Grr. Apart from all of the lovely, hit-and-miss wi-fi in here, and the Police arresting a drunk, it's pretty good in Wetherspoon's for writing. Cup of ok coffee and a muffin, and trying to track down some Newcastle socks for under £10 (try it! include delivery!) all was well.


Until a few moments ago when a group of total Nathans arrived and inundated the pub with their hilarious copied from the tv catchphrases and loud ruminations about how much they wanted to bang Dr. Reid from Scrubs.


They were so annoying, I was considering leaving. Until they left, abruptly, and the pub breathed a collective sigh of relief. I started writing about it, then the wi-fi packed up.



So I left anyway.


Note to readers: following this, Nothing Too Pretentious warmly reccomends T-Mobile Web and Walk Plus. (Which failed, the first time I wrote this section, losing all I wrote.)

I Will Survive!

Hello nation,

It has been a long time since I did ANYTHING to this place - since January 15th, in fact - the time has come to drag my new(ish) laptop to the sheer joy of Wetherspoon's and the free wi-fi. What have I been up to? Well, I have had literally thousands of emails asking about...well, work stuff. I know that to say that you have a blog is about as cutting edge as saying "I have an email address", but this place is a little online sanctuary of calm.

I say calm, I took me literally two hours to log into the place. But at least in the meantime I found out that Kate Lawler finished the London Marathon.



My trawls through tape land have reached about half way; all of my tapes are going to be consigned to the great landfill in the west and be replaced with MP3s. I never knew I recorded myself doing so much crap.

Anyhow, I am back, and shall decree that MONDAY NIGHT IS BLOGGING NIGHT and at least one update will go in from now on each Monday.

Back shortly.