Trickles, Tweets and Skype-rama!

All aboard the trickle my little chugboats...

Third weekly session of the trickle-oscopy here for you.

And I think i'm starting to get this blog malarchy. I feel like i'm crossing frontiers just without the cult following (as yet!). But soon, I know, there will be facebook sites just dedicated to the history of the trickle. And when that day comes, we'll stand shoulder to shoulder (or shoulder to arm pit as i'm not height-ist) and reminisce about the early drops.

In addition to this techno-genius, i'm twittering! Imagine! And i'm not just tweeting but i'm following. Obviously the tweets are going down a storm but still not living up to Philip Schofield or Jonathan 'Wossy' Ross level yet. They are like the super max strength twitterers whilst i'm more homeopathic. If you want to follow the twitter, you'll find me by searching for hanmeredith.

As for Skype... what a stroke of Genius. My sister is living dans the other side of the channel. And so, for kicks, we said let's sack the phone and try this video phone we keep hearing about. Brilliant! That's what it is. I could see her little face and everything. It goes without saying that we both tried swearing at each other to test it was working. But I am on board the Skype waggon and loving it so much, I wish I had shares.

So before I get sucked into that third world malarchy (or do I mean second life?), I'm going to get back to the reality asap.

Until next week... Keep it techno Tricklers...

Don't miss a trickle!

Ey up my little tricklers!

So far, so good I hope as far as the trickle goes.

As for a time line of trickles, I will be issuing a new trickle every week. Any more and you'd be saturated. So that's final...

All the best things are weekly anyway. Heat magazine, Question Time, Euromillions and Friday nights. With Neighbours (despite it's controversial new advert breaks), Jo Whiley and St Patrick's Day the only exceptions to this weekly mantra.

So a lot has happened around and about since the last trickle.

What about the Nottinghamshire man with his chicken-dung booby-trap? Sick of continually being broken into Joe Weston-Webb set up a catapult loaded with chicken muck ready to splatter the attacker. Joe's theory: He could sniff out the culprit! Surely this is the plot of the next Home Alone film? Macaulay Culkin would have loved that. Who's got a catapult handy in the garage though? Oh yes, that's right... just behind the bikes, in front of the freezer... Don't trip on the tool bag on your way...

Nottingham's Lace Centre shut its doors for the final time. One of the only remaining medieval buildings in the city, the Lace Centre's Severns Building stands below the Castle, with Robin Hood guarding it from across the street. I'll tell you this for nothing, he wants to get a new job.

The Lace Centre has said that lace making will never flourish again in the area. The skills will be lost and Nottingham will no longer be the lace city. So if we're not the lace city, we're not the Robin Hood city since the Tales of Robin Hood was allowed to go under... what kind of city are we? The Gun Crime city? I'm sure the tourists will be flocking.

Thank Goodness for Goose Fair because that's all we have going for us now. Please don't take our helter skelter... I just wouldn't recover.

Finally, a tribute to all those people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989. This week was the twentieth anniversary of the disaster in which 96 Liverpool football fans lost their lives when too many people were let into the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.

To spare a thought for all those who were there, Forest fans and Liverpool fans alike and hope the football fraternity will never make those mistakes again.

Til the next trickle amigos...

Time to brace yourself for the trickle

This blog has been a long time coming. To blog or not to blog? It's a strange concept that people may actually be interested in another geek stoking up their over-inflated opinion of themselves.

Rest assured, I will be attempting to be interesting and if i'm not please let me know and I will endeavour to improve.

Who knows what this blog may contain in the future? As a patriot it's likely to contain hefty amounts about Notts, Nottingham, Robin Hood and all things Larry the left lion-esque.

In the spirit of Notts, let's have a little taster... here's my 'Sofa Idol' audition tape from last year. You knows I should have won... Not likely love...



But in addition to that, we will have a "little trickle" of news about almost anything. With an eclectic mix like that you're defo not going to want to stop the trickle.

So keep an eye out for the "little trickle" that will be trickling it's way to your pc, laptop, phone or, by now if technology has finally caught up, right to the retina... because lets be honest all that stuff in between is probably a waste of time.

Just remember kids... you is gonna loves to trickle!